Plate 213. 
EOSE, KING’S ACEE. 
That our English rose-growers are determined not to allow 
the French nurserymen to have all the honour and profit of 
introducing new Eoses has been already demonstrated; and 
we can now with some degree of confidence appeal to our judg¬ 
ment in this matter, as having been abundantly confirmed by 
the experience of the past season,—those which have already 
been figured by us, John Hopper and Lord Clyde , having taken 
a prominent position at the various rose-shows held through¬ 
out the kingdom this year. We have now great pleasure in 
adding another to the list, with the belief that King's Acre will 
prove a worthy compeer of the two already named. 
The continued drought of the past summer acted very inju¬ 
riously on the autumn blooming of the Eose: in some very ex¬ 
tensive rose-grounds that we visited in the latter part of August 
the flowers were very scarce and very much out of character, 
and the autumn exhibition at the Crystal Palace bore testimony 
to the same fact, even although the copious rain had put an 
end to that long season of dry weather which had previously 
prevailed. It was then with no little surprise that about the 
middle of August we received a box of very beautiful blooms 
from Mr. Cranston, the well-known rose-grower of King’s Acre, 
Hereford. There was something so fresh and beautiful about 
them, the colour was so bright and fresh, and the shape was 
so good, that we immediately hailed it as a valuable addition 
to our English-raised Eoses. It was accompanied by a note 
from Mr. Cranston, stating that the habit of the plant was 
very vigorous, the foliage large and good, and that it had 
withstood, as a seedling, the terrible winter of 1861. He also 
added, what we can well believe, that during the proper Eose 
