Plate 210. 
TEA ROSE, ALBA ROSEA. 
Whatever difference of opinion may exist as to the value of 
Tea Roses as cut flowers when exhibited by themselves, there 
can be but one opinion, we think, as to their beauty and to 
their value as pot plants (this difference of opinion not arising 
from anything in the flowers themselves, but from the great 
similarity of colouring that exists amongst the different varieties, 
—it having been found as yet impossible to obtain any high- 
coloured flowers in a class in which so much beauty and deli¬ 
cacy of tint already exists). Attempts in this direction have 
been made both in England and in France, but as yet unsuc¬ 
cessfully. We must not despair, however, for the skill of our 
horticulturists has achieved greater results than this. 
While hosts of hybrid perpetuals come to us every year 
from France, puzzling us by their similarity, and causing often- 
times grievous disappointments, Tea Roses have been but spa¬ 
ringly sent, and even then sometimes there is a doubt as to 
their novelty, for it does now and then happen that a good Rose 
has been, comparatively speaking, almost unknown,—been 
raised perhaps in the provinces, and not much valued by the 
Parisian growers; but after a year or two it attracts notice, and 
then comes out as a new Rose. Thus that very beautiful and use¬ 
ful Noisette, Celine Forestier , had been 44 let out,” and brought 
over here, but received little notice ; but a couple of years 
after our friend Mr. Stan dish met with it, and brought it be¬ 
fore the English public, and no Rose has been more successful 
or given greater satisfaction than it. So, again, M. Eugene 
Verdier is bringing out a Tea Rose this season, Marechal JSfiel , 
which is not absolutelv new, but of which we entertain the 
opinion that it will be found to be a really good and useful 
flower. 
