Plate 229 . 
ROSE, BERNARD PALISSY. 
As no flower is so extensively cultivated as the Rose, we feel 
that there are few, if any, of our subscribers who will not feel 
an interest in seeing some of those new varieties which from 
time to time are introduced by either home or foreign raisers 
of seedling flowers; and as we have lately figured an interesting 
variety of English origin, we now give one of the best French 
varieties of the past season, a flower that doubtless will appear 
in many a winning stand at the exhibitions of the present year. 
It has been frequently observed, and with a great amount of 
truth, that it is very difficult to form a correct judgment of new 
Roses, from the blooms exhibited during the first season, when 
they only appear in the stands of some of the leading growers, 
for sale; when, however, a flower has acquired a good name 
when first shown, it is rarely that it loses it afterwards, although 
many flowers have had to endure neglect for the first season, 
their merits being only discovered later; and hence, when judg¬ 
ments are passed on new flowers, it very often happens that 
lovers of the Rose in various parts find fault with it. We may, 
with perhaps but little fear of being very far wrong, consider 
the following as amongst the best of the seventy or eighty varie¬ 
ties of last year:— Alp aide de Botatier , clear rose with satin- 
like gloss; Andre Leroy dAngers , rich dark velvety purple ; 
JDuchesse de Morny , a fresh pale-rose, reverse of petals silvery, 
shape excellent; Claude Million , an imbricated crimson-scarlet 
flower; Kate Hamburg , clear rose-coloured flower; Eugene 
Verdier , deep violet-purple, of excellent form; Madame Derreulx 
JDouville , bright pink or tender rose, shape excellent, and large, 
very free blooming ; Madame Victor Verdier , a bright cherry- 
red, figured by us last year ; Pierre Netting , deep blackish-red, 
