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used iu many cases for plants in stoves and greenhouses ; 
but it is necessary to understand the nature of the insect 
and the plants to be operated on. Great caution must be 
used, also, as to the quantity of sulphur proper to be 
employed, as well as tbe particular parts to be operated on. 
It must not be supposed that sulphur may be used as freely 
in a house as in the open ground. 
M. Alphonse Karr, known chiefly for his clever feuilletons [ 
iu the press here, and as a distinguished amateur of Roses, i 
communicated, some time ago, to the Illustration , an interest- j 
ing article containing a selection of a hundred and forty 
varieties, with their colours, and, in many cases, the names 
of their raisers, as well as the date of their introduction. 
; This communication, which has been copied by the Revue, | 
is of considerable length, but is valuable in several respects. 
J With the exception of one or two items, the historical 
particulars of new plants, whether species or varieties, are , 
not generally appreciated as they ought to be. They are, 
therefore, seldom noted and enregistered with sufficient care. | 
M. Karr has been at much pains to ascertain the origin of 
the sorts enumerated, but, for obvious reasons, his success 
has not been so complete as could be wished. His paper 
is also valuable, inasmuch as it shows the relative positions 
of the varieties named in the estimation of six of the 
principal Rose growers on this side of the channel, and in 
this way people may see how far their own opinions are 
in accordance with the judgment given. It may also 
| enable others to compare their own description of colours 
I with those of persons who may be presumed to understand 
this branch of the subject, difficult enough to settle, if we 
may judge from the various Rose catalogues published, in 
which every person seems to make a point of having a 
description of his own. 
As has been hinted, M. Karr invited a number of the 
most noted Rose growers to give a list of a hundred and 
forty varieties, w'hich should contain only the very best. | 
Out of the number of persons thus invited only five were 
able to reply. These are M. Hardy, son of the director of ■ 
the Garden of the Luxembourg ; M. Laffay, a famed raiser ! 
of new sorts; M. Margottin, M. Rene, and another, M. 
Karr’s own choice also included. We are not informed why 
such a limited number was decided on, and it was not 1 
accepted without a gentle protest. M. Karr states, however, 
that he would ten times rather have a hundred good 
varieties than a thousand different sorts of which two-thirds ■ 
should not be above mediocrity, and that out of three 
hundred Rose-trees in his garden, there are not more than 
sixty different varieties. 
The Rohes with the same names given by the whole six 
persons are limited enough, thus :— Duchess of Sutherland, | 
delicate rose, raised from seed by M. Laffay; Giant des ! 
Butailles, brilliant crimson, raised by M. Guillot; Souvenir 
de la Malmaison, pale flesh colour, raised by M. Beluze, of 
Vaise, near Lyons, in 1743. Malmaison, I may observe, is 1 
one of the Imperial Chateaux near Paris, and was one of 
the places to which Napoleon retreated after Waterloo. 
Rose de la Reine completes this list: it is described as very 
large (a vague and unsatisfactory description after all), rosy- ; 
lilac; it was raised by M. Laffay iu 1835, and it flowered for 
the first time in 1841. 
The Roses named by the five out of the six comprise— 
, Dupetit Thouars, violet-red; Duchcsse de Moutpensicr, delicate 
I rose, bright rose in The centre, raised by M. Margottin in 
1846; Madame Luff ay, clear red, raised by M. Laffay; 
Vicomtcsse Decaze (Tea), pale yellow, centre deep yellow; 
i Chromatella (Noisette), bright yellow; Prince Albert, rose 
1 and violet, raised by M. Laffay, at Bellevue, in 1840; Paul 
Joseph, purple and crimson; New Persian Yellow, bright 
j yellow. 
Those which received four votes are as follows:— Madame 
Angelina, yellowish-white, turning flesh colour, raised by M. 
Chanet, of Gentilly, in the department of the Seine; 
Vicomlc de Gussy, cherry-red; Comtesse de DuchAtel, bright 
rose, raised by M. Laffay. (The Comte de Duchatel was 
the last minister of the interior under Louis Philippe. I 
suppose this Rose is named in honour of his lady.) Lady 
Alice Peel, rosy-carmine, raised by M. Laffay; Dcvoniensis 
(Tea), yellowish-white, deeper at the centre; Adam (Tea), 
white, raised from seed, at Rheims, in the garden of M. 
Adam, in or about the year 1838 ; Madame Annie, delicate : 
flesh colour; Solfaterre (Noisette), sulphur-yellow; Comte 
de Montalivet, violet-red, shaded with purple; Georyes 
Lecamus, clear rose; Jacques La/itte, rosy-carmine, raised 
from seed by M. Vibert in 1846 ; Marguerite d'Anjou, satiny- 
rose ; Edouard Desfosses, deal' rose, raised in 1840 by M. 
Renard Courtin, of Orleans; William Jess, lilac-carmine; 1 
Aimee Vibert (Noisette), white iu bouquets, raised by M. 
Vibert; Lamarque, white, centre yellow; Rose du Roi, red; 
Cristata, rose, raised in Switzerland in 1827, introduced by ! 
Vibert; Acidalie, white, tinged with rose, raised in 1837, at 
Angers, by M. Rousseau; Souchet, purple-violet, raised by 
M. Souchet, of Bagnolet; Mistress Bosanquet, fleshy-white; 
Triomphe du Luxembourg (Tea), coppery-rose, raised by M. 
Hardy; Aubernon, deep rose, raised in 1840 by M. Duval, of 
Montmorency, near Paris; Prince Ester hazy (Tea), rose, 
shaded. 
I must leave those which obtained three and two votes 
for my next.—P. F. K. 
AN ADDRESS 
TO THE PUBLIC BY THE COUNCIL OF THE HOETICULTUEAL 
SOCIETY OF LONDON. 
This Society was founded iu the year 1804, by Sir Joseph 
Banks and other gentlemen, for the purpose of “ collecting 
every information respecting the culture and treatment of 
all plants and trees, as well culinary as ornamental, and for i 
giving premiums in Horticulture whenever it should be I 
judged expedient to do so.” 
In the year 1809 the Society was created by Royal Charter ! 
a Body Corporate “ for the improvement of 'Horticulture in 
all its branches, ornamental as well as useful; ” by this 
measure personal liability for debts to be incurred by the 
Corporation was for ever extinguished, its power of action 
was largely increased, and it at once took its place by the 
side of the Royal, Linnean, and other Chartered Societies, 
formed for the promotion of science. 
For more than half a century the Society has steadily 
pursued the path traced out by the Charter. It has minutely 
examined the qualities, and reduced to order the names, of 
fruit-trees and of esculent plants; it has directed the atten¬ 
tion of scientific as well as of practical men to the improve¬ 
ment of the arts of cultivation; it has introduced at much 
cost great numbers of exotic plants to decorate our gardens; 
it has published many volumes filled with important treatises 
upon almost every subject in which the gardener is interested; 
it has formed a very extensive Garden and Orchard, in which , 
have been collected from time to time numerous plants, ! 
valuable for their utility or beauty; it has given a great 
impetus to cultivation by its public exhibitions of garden 
produce; it has been a school from which have sprung some \ 
of the most distinguished gardeners of the present century ; 
and it has given away to its Fellows, and to public establish¬ 
ments, above a million and a half of plants, packets of seeds, 
and cuttings. In effecting all this about £250,000 have been 
expended, of which .£40,000 have been consumed in the 
creation of the Garden, more than £2000 in forming collec¬ 
tions of drawings, models of fruit, &c., £13,000 in the mere 
cost of procuring new plants and seeds, while above £20,000 
have been directly applied in the form of medals and money 
prizes for the encouragement of Horticulture. 
In these great efforts it has exerted itself beyond its 
strength. Before 1830, a heavy debt of more than £20,000 
had been incurred ; and the Corporation is still oppressed by 
about ten thousaud pounds worth of liabilities, of which not 
more than £3000 have accrued within tbe last twenty years. 
This late increase of debt has been caused by the combined 
action of unpropitious seasons, &c., which have rendered the 
Great Garden Exhibitions latterly unprofitable ; jmd of 
diminished income, caused by deaths and other adverse 
circumstances. 
It is obvious that such an accumulation of debt will, if 
unchecked, speedily destroy the Society; and it is to avert 
this calamity—for a public calamity it would really be—that 
the present Council have resolved upon endeavouring to 
effect certain changes iu the organisation of the Society, 
calculated, as they trust, at once to extricate the Corporation 
from the debt which has of late years so greatly impeded its 
action, and to place it in a secure and advantageous position 
for the future. 
