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for confusion will inevitably follow, particularly as both 
are light-colored roses ; so that in future confiding ama¬ 
teurs may expect to receive the former whenever they 
order and are extremely anxious to procure the last-men¬ 
tioned rose. 
Nabonnaud, of Golfe-Juan, a most prolific rosarian, has 
confined himself to eight varieties this year—seven teas 
and a noisette ; the latter medium in size, very full, bright 
rose centre margined with pale rose, and of climbing 
habit. Dubreuil sends out two sorts, both of which re¬ 
ceived first-class premiums at the Lyons Exhibition in 
June last. A hybrid remontant, Admiral Courbet, bright 
carmine with magenta shadings, extremely fragrant; Ma¬ 
dame Jean Sisley, a Bengal, flower large and very double, 
clear white, and the buds long and finely shaped—a 
plant valuable for pot-culture and for cutting, on account 
of its beautiful buds. 
Soupert & Notting, of Luxembourg, offer three novel¬ 
ties. Princesse Julie d'Arenburg, a tea, seems full of 
promise and may take high rank among yellow roses. 
The flower is cup-shaped, clear yellow, shaded with deeper 
yellow. Eugene Verdier presents eight varieties, all 
hybrid remontants, and Charles Verdier four in the same 
class. Nearly all the leading growers are represented by 
one or more new flowers, but space will not permit men¬ 
tion in detail. 
Of new English roses, Laxton, of Bedford, offers two 
hybrid remontants: Gipsy, a vigorous free-blooming plant, 
with medium-sized, full, light-red flowers ; Bedford Belle, 
a tea, having for parents Gloire de Dijon and Souvenir du 
Comte de Cavour. The flower is very double, of good 
form and opening well. It blooms continuously through¬ 
out the season, producing very lovely flowers somewhat 
resembling La France—color, marbled rose. Writing of 
the rose, Madame Oswald de Kerchove, Mr. Frettingham, 
an English rosarian, says that it is the most thoroughly 
perpetual white rose we have, blooming, as it does, at 
every point. It is even much freer than the well-known 
La France, to which it is similar in growth, not more than 
two feet in height, and literally a sheet of snow, owing to 
the freedom with which its lovely white blooms are pro¬ 
duced. This rose is usually classed as a hybrid remon¬ 
tant, though in reality it is a hybrid noisette. 
The delicious odor of the damask and other old-fash¬ 
ioned roses has accustomed us to expect and exact this 
admirable quality from all the descendants of this ancient 
and royal family. Therefore, to many persons, especially 
the older generation, a scentless rose loses all power of 
attraction, no matter how lovely its form or how brilliant 
its coloring may be. For those to whom fragrance is in¬ 
dispensable, we can recommend Ulrich Brunner, a hybrid 
remontant of last year, as being one of the most highly 
scented roses of its class. In addition to this may be 
noted that, like its parent Paul Neyron, it produces enor¬ 
mous flowers of magnificent petal and pleasing color, a 
cherry red. It was awarded a certificate from the Royal 
Botanic Society of London in May last. 
“ Etendard de Jeanne d’Arc ” has won golden opinions 
the past season in England, and is remarkable for its free¬ 
dom of bloom and perpetual flowering character. The 
flowers are finely shaped and extremely handsome when 
well expanded. It received a first-class certificate from 
the Royal Horticultural Society and a similar distinction 
from the Royal Botanic. The color is creamy white, 
slightly tinged with pink. 
Messrs. Veitch & Sons have introduced “Rose Button,” 
a charming novelty, in the shape of a diminutive rose of the 
species Rosa lucida, now quite rare. The flowers are 
described as being small and very double like those of a 
miniature balsam, the color deep rose inclining to purple ; 
very fine and effective. 
As the pretensions of Gloire Lyonna : se have been dis¬ 
puted, there may be doubts as to our having a decidedly 
genuine yellow hybrid remontant, yet it seems sufficiently 
clear that, at least, we have a striped rose of that class. 
Messrs. Paul & Sons, of the Cheshunt Nurseries, announce 
the advent of the “ Pride of Reigate,” the first striped 
hybrid remontant. 
It is a sport from Comtesse d’Oxford, color light crim¬ 
son, charmingly striped with white, and is said to be con¬ 
stant, novel and of as good shape as its parent. The same 
firm announces two others in the same class, “ Longfel¬ 
low,” rich violet crimson, form of Charles Lefebvre; in¬ 
deed, it may be called a violet form of this rose, but of 
strong, vigorous habit. The other is called “ Madame 
Norman Nevada,” anew flower of the Beauty of Waltham 
class, but a lighter cherry carmine, perfect form, very vig¬ 
orous, and a good autumnal blossomer. The Gardener's 
Magazine recommends Blanche Moreau, white, and 
Madame Moreau, red, as two of the most useful moss 
hybrid remontants, being really perpetual in habit, a 
quality that can be ascribed to few that are classed with 
them. 
The Rosarians’ Year Book contains a very entertaining 
account of a trip to Madeira and the Azores. The writer, 
A. H. Gray, is evidently an ardent lover of the rose, and a 
laudable desire to note the bearing of his favorite in those 
genial climes was the motive of the voyage. His curiosity 
was well rewarded, for he saw marvelous sights in the 
way of rose-trees ; veritable trees, both at the Azores and 
at Lisbon. Touching at the latter place on his way out, 
he was there shown a Chromatella twenty years old and 
thirty feet high, with a trunk of the thickness of a man’s 
thigh, and a specimen of Marie Van Houtte twenty-seven 
feet in height. 
A valuable publication, attractive and full of interest to 
all rose amateurs, has been issued by the National Rose 
Society of England. It is a second and revised edition of 
its descriptive catalogue of exhibition roses, to which is 
appended a catalogue of garden roses. The list is a tabu¬ 
lated one, and gives the name, date, raisers’ name, form, 
color, habit, and remarks on each admitted sort; and 
when any two or more varieties are considered identical 
their names are bracketed together. A similar work has 
been published by Ketten Freres, of Luxembourg, but 
with more ample details and a different classification, 
which is by colors. A complete alphabetical list enumer¬ 
ating all the varieties described, about 1,400, is added to 
the catalogue. Still another work of the same nature is 
in preparation by French rosarians, which is to surpass in 
scope and comprehensiveness all preceding publications. 
It is to be a complete dictionary of the rose, and, in ad- 
