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August 11. 
Madame de St. Joseph, salmon-pink; large and full. 
Niplietos. pale lemon, often snowy white; large and 
fun. 
Sofrano, bright apricot, in a bud state, changing to 
buff. 
Class 19.—The Isle of Bourbon Rose (Rosa indica 
Bourboniensis) . —This class may bo distinguished by 
their stout habit, and thick, shining foliage; by the 
bright colours of the flowers, and fine-shaped blooms, 
combined with their autumnal season of blooming. 
They are very hardy and free in growth. Examples 
are :— 
Aeidalie, blush-white ; superb ; large and full. 
Cornice de Seine, vivid crimson, changing to purple; 
superb, and very double. 
Coup d’Hebe, pale rose; form excellent; full, and 
very double. 
Gloire de Paris, bright crimson ; large and full. 
Madame Angelina, delicately beautiful; rich cream, 
with a fawn centre; large and double. 
Paid Joseph, dark velvety crimson; superb; large 
and full. 
Souvenir de Malmaison, clear flesh, edged with blush ; 
very large and double. 
Class 20.—The Noisette Rose ( Rosa Indica Noi- 
settiana). —The Noisette Roses may he known chiefly 
by their blooming in large terminal clusters throughout 
the summer and autumn months ; by their free growth,^ 
and large, rather than thin, foliage. A small section of 
this class, of which the Cloth of Cold is an example; 
are rather tender, and require to be grown against a 
wall. Examples of the hardy kinds are :— 
Aimee Vibert, pure white; beautiful and full. 
Cerise, rosy-purple, sometimes cherry; large and 
double. 
Eclair de Jupiter, bright crimson, scarlet; large and 
double. 
Miss Glegg, beautiful; pure white; large and full. 
Pumila alba, white, small and double. (The two last 
are suitable for bedding). 
The tender Noisettes have been produced by hybridising 
! with the tea-scented Roses. Though rather tender, they 
are beautiful sweet Roses, and are well adapted for 
covering walls in sheltered situations. The following is 
a list of them :— 
Clara Wendell, pale-yellow ; large and full. 
Cleopatra, yellow ; large and full. 
Cloth of Gold, yellow, edged with sulphur; large and 
double. 
Desprez afleur jaune, red, buff, and sulphur; variable; 
very sweet; large and full. 
Euphrosyne, pale rose, and yellow; abundant bloomer; 
very sweet; large and double. 
La Biche, fine, pale flesh; very large; and very 
double. 
La Victorieuse, white, shaded with rose; beautiful; 
very large ; and double. 
La Pactole, fine ; yellow; large and full. 
Lamarque, sulphur-yellow, changing to white; very 
large and very double. 
Mrs. Siddons, clear yellow; and very double. 
Ophirie, nankeen and copper ; distinct and full. 
Similar, deep sulphur, changing to yellow; very 
double. 
Solfatare, fine sulphur-yellow ; large and double. 
Yellow Noisette (Smith’s), straw-colour; large and full. 
These rather tender hybridised Noisettes are, as the 
reader will have observed, mostly either yellow, or 
colours approaching to it. They are all very beautiful; 
and for covering a warm wall, or planting in a con¬ 
servatory to train against pillars, no Roses are so suit¬ 
able. I have only now to give a few remarks on 
pruning, as our correspondent requested, but must defer 
it to another opportunity. T. Appleby. 
REMARKS ON THE SEASON. 
In a popular work like The Cottage Gardener, 
which is read by parties widely separated from each 
other, much good is done by occasionally recording the 
state of the weather, and the crops of various kinds, 
which differ much even in districts not so far apart; 
while, of course, those further removed, may, in certain 
cases, he widely at variance; and as it is always in¬ 
teresting to know how things go on at other places, I 
shall devote the present chapter to the detail of such 
peculiarities as the present season has furnished us with, i 
and the success or failure of the various produce which 
may be traced to that cause ; for though much is, doubt¬ 
less, due to care, cultivation, and management, yet, I 
Dame Nature exercises so much more powerful influence 
on the progress of everything in the vegetable kingdom, | 
that I will restrict my remarks to such things as are i 
supposed to be effected entirely by her, and report the ! 
result as if the ordinary means usually taken to obtain I 
success had been put in operation, and the issue, whe¬ 
ther for better or worse, due entirely to the vicissitudes 
of the season. 
Commencing my observations with the Flower Garden, 
I may state, that in the district I write from the spring 
had been unusually wet, and though frosts have been 
both later and more severe in other seasons, yet the 
coldness of tho ground, and the absence of sunshine, 
rendered vegetation much later than in the majority of 
seasons; while it is needless to observe the deluges of 
rain in early winter, with the severe weather we had at 
the end of February and March, completely destroyed 
many plants which had stood the two or three preceding 
winters, and which up to then looked likely to grow 
another season. In fact, the weather had been so mild 
through autumn, and up to the middle of February, that 
many plants considered very tender, had stood (cer¬ 
tainly not unhurt) but unkilled, and some of them 
flourishing in a manner more like the early part of 
October than midwinter, only without their flowers ; 
suffice it to say, that on the 10th of February I took 
cuttings from out-door plants, which had not the slightest 
protection, of Mangle's variegated Geranium, and some 
scarlet and sweet-scented kinds ; the Double Purple 
Senecio and Blue Anagallis, with all the kinds of Cal¬ 
ceolaria, and such Verbenas as had not been lost by the 
decay-causing rains when they had been growing 
thickly together. This last cause destroyed all the 
Petunias, and some other plants, including a great 
number of the Geraniums. However, isolated plants 
escaped, and many others, not necessary to mention, 
remained unhurt up to the period here noticed, when, it 
is needless to say, the setting-in of hard weather anni¬ 
hilated them completely; even the partial covering-up 
which I gave to. some Calceolarias has seemed unable 
to save them from the severity of the season and the 
long confinement they had to endure under snow, so 
that when spring did set in, and the effects of winter 
could be fairly seen, it was found that scarcely a single 
plant of Calceolaria remained, while Verbenas, Anagallis, 
&c., remained but a mass of putrid matter; and even 
hard-wooded plants, not decidedly “ hardy,” in the com¬ 
mon acceptance of the word, had also succumbed to the 
sharp usage of the icy king, so that large bushes of 
Veronica Lindleyana were destroyed, as well as Coronilla 
and Cytisus. One plant of the latter, ten feet high, and 
proportion ably bushy, had just begun to expand its 
flowers in a rather sheltered part of the shrubbery, 
and gave forth promise of being a truly noble object, 
but it was, like many less aspiring objects, laid pros¬ 
trate, so that but little remained of what is usually termed 
“ bedding-out” plants, except a portion of a bed 
of Nierembergia , which, without any covering, save the 
snow, withstood the winter, and flourished afterwards. 
