ROSE GOSSIP. 
The recent issues of the French and English horti¬ 
cultural publications contain long and imposing lists of 
the novelties of the present season, comprising nearly 
eighty fresh candidates for public favor, and as the 
lists are to be continued, it is quite probable that be" 
tween the autumn of 1888 and the spring of 1884, not 
far from one hundred new Roses will be thrown upon 
the market. 
It goes without saying that these new seedlings are 
all attractively described by their respective growers, 
and the list doubtless contains a certain percentage of 
flowers possessing original characteristics in a sufficient 
degree to render them valuable. But the experience of 
past years teaches us that many of them, for lack of 
merit, and others for radical defects, are destined to 
run a brief career, ending in oblivion. 
In view of the very large number of seedlings now 
annually presented, compared with the very restricted 
number which achieves success, a French writer recently 
appealed to the growers to use more circumspection in 
selecting the seedlings they bring forward each year, 
and to judge them with the salutary severity of an 
outsider, in order to avoid encumbering the market with 
subjects below mediocrity, thereby bringing discredit 
on the calling, and abusing the confidence of a long- 
suffering public. 
Perhaps this was asking too much—that is, from the 
grower’s point of view, and some of them at least must 
have turned a deaf ear to the appeal, for the aggregate 
number is not diminished “cm contraive." 
While it would require too much space to go through 
the complete list, yet at the same time it might be of 
interest to refer to a portion which might be recom¬ 
mended, both by the well established reputation of the 
grower and by the apparent good points indicated in 
the descriptions. 
Etendard de Jeanne d'Arc, a new white Tea offered 
by Jules Margottin, seems very promising, and though 
offered for the first time the present season, has never¬ 
theless been in existence for several years, long enough 
to test its merits quite thoroughly. It does not hail 
from the south of France, as do most of the new Roses, 
but is a seedling raised by M. G-arcan, of Rouen, who 
sold it to Margottin in 1878. The flower is large and 
full, similar in form to Gloire de Dijon, and is beauti¬ 
ful creamy white, changing to pure white, and is a 
variety which will doubtless become a standard sort. 
M. Leveque offers six new hybrid Remontants—one 
pale, transparent rose in color, one bright clear rose, and 
four dark flowers; amongst the latter, Directeur Alphaud 
seems worthy of special mention. The flower is extra 
large, very full, and perfect in form, the color dark- 
purple, shaded with black, is lightened with velvety 
brown and glowing crimson tints, and is claimed to be 
one of the finest dark Roses hitherto sent out. 
Joseph Schwartz, of Lyons, the worthy successor of 
Guillot, presents six new Roses. Five of these flowers 
are hybrid Remontants. Felix Breton, large, full 
flower with imbricated petals, a dark shade of red, so 
combined with other tints as to constitute a very sin¬ 
gular and original coloring ; Benoit Comte, a large, 
dark red, globular Rose, shaded with vermillion; Fran- 
cisque Rive, bright, cherry red, shaded carmine; Presi¬ 
dent Senelar, deep red; Secretaire Nicolas, a globular 
cup-shaped flower, beautiful dark-velvety red, very 
fragrant. Another Rose, Jeanne Drivon, is noticed 
elsewhere. 
Antoine Levet, of Lyons, offers two hybrid Remon¬ 
tants—Alphonse Soupret, which is the same size and 
form as the well-known La Reine, and is clear, bright 
rose, possessing the very valuable habit of blooming 
remarkably early, and will prove an excellent Rose for 
forcing; Eclair, a vigorous plant with fiery red flowers. 
Liaband, of Lyons, sends out four hybrid Remon¬ 
tants, one of which, should the description prove ac¬ 
curate, will create a sensation, for it displays an extra¬ 
ordinary combination of colors, seldom seen except in 
the Teas; the flower is very large, almost full, with 
broad petals. The color bright rose, mixed with orange 
and salmon! He may well add “ that it is quite a new 
color”—for a hybrid Remontant. It is named Mdlle. 
Julie Gaulain. 
Yigneron, of Orleans, has four novelties—Madame 
Wilson, a hybrid Remontant, seedling from Elizabeth 
Vigneron, large, full and globular, beautiful trans¬ 
parent rose color, very fragrant, buds long, and finely 
shaped. The others are Mdlle. Helene Michel, dark 
red, with bright centre; Capitaine Louis Frere, a large, 
clear, bright-red flower; Vicomtesse du Terrail, a new 
Bourbon Rose, large and full, with recurved petals, soft, 
rosy, flesh color, perpetual bloomer. 
Eugene Verdier, of Paris, sends out a long list, com¬ 
prising no less than eleven varieties, one Moss and ten 
hybrid Remontants. Of the latter, Mad. Bertha Mack- 
art is said to be very fine; the flower is extra large, 
bright carmine in color, and of a splendid globular, cup¬ 
shaped form. The Moss Rose, Colonel Robert le Fort, is 
very vigorous in growth, with very large, full, finely- 
shaped flowers of dark-purplish crimson with glowing 
tints, very fragrant, and is said by the grower to be one 
of the finest Roses in its class. 
J. Pernet, successor to Veuve Ducher, has a new Tea, 
Edward Gautier, which is highly recommended by a 
correspondent of the Journal des Roses; flower large 
and globular, color composed of white, rose and yellow. 
William Paul, the celebrated English rosarian, offers 
six new sets, four hybrid Remontants, two of which 
are recommended.for garden culture and two as ex¬ 
hibition flowers. Of the former, Charles Lamb is bril¬ 
liant red, with buds of extreme beauty. The plant is a 
true perpetual, being covered with flowers throughout 
the season. Garden Favorite is of beautiful fresh rose 
color; the flowers are large and produced in abundance. 
The flowers, adapted for exhibition purposes, are named 
Ella Gordon, bright cherry red ; and Lady of the Lake, 
large, full and globular. The two remaining varieties 
are especially useful for button-hole flowers. Hybrid 
Remontant, Emperor, small, well-made, almost black, 
plants hardy, vigorous and free-blooming. Empress, 
issue of Maiden’s Blush, a constant bloomer, producing 
pretty white flowers, with rose-colored centre. 
Henry Frettingham, of the Beeston Nurseries, offers 
