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THE FLORIST. 
respondents to gardening periodicals is carefully looked over 
and prepared for press by a party accustomed to such work. 
If in saying as much we are raising a veil, it is not shewing any 
unpleasing features. Let us hope that our little work may 
meet with the largest encouragement, and prove the means of 
diffusing knowledge and information upon the pleasing subject 
of Floriculture. Much interest we believe it has already 
created, from its illustrations alone, which have received no 
small attention from the gentlemen superintending that depart¬ 
ment; and with what success our readers may judge. Let us 
enlist as cordial a co-operation from a more enlarged circle of 
supporters, as we have received from our present subscribers. 
It is the time of year for Florists : “ for, lo ! the winter is past, 
the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth ; 
the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the 
turtle is heard in our land; the fig-tree putteth forth her green 
figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell.’' 
-—Solomon’s Song, chap. 2, v. 11 to 18. 
Note.’ —Since this article has been in print, the sale has so much 
increased that it is necessary to reprint some of the numbers, 
which will be ready as soon as the plates can be coloured. 
THE HYBRID PERPETUAL ROSE, COMTESSE DE RAM- 
BUTEAU. 
This new autumnal Rose, of which we have given a coloured plate, 
was raised by Monsieur Thomas, Florist at St. Denis, near Paris, 
and sent out by him last autumn (1847). It was raised from 
that very fine and well-known rose, the Duchess of Sutherland. In 
habit it is more dwarf than ifs parent, and it gives its flowers in 
autumn in far greater abundance; in fact, it is one of the most 
abundant bloomers of the tribe ; its flowers are produced in corymbs 
of from ten to fourteen, and are in their greatest beauty when about 
half expanded. They are then generally of a delicate rose, the mar¬ 
gin of each petal beautifully shaded with deep rosy pink, as is the 
case occasionally with those of its parent, more particularly when 
blooming late in autumn. This is not a brilliant acquisition to our 
autumnal roses, but is really a good free blooming rose and very 
fragrant, much resembling in its perfume our old favourite the 
Cabbage or Common Provence Rose. 
We had hoped to have given a similar account of R. Lanei, which 
forms our second illustration, but our application for information re¬ 
specting it has not been attended with success. 
