OLD AND NEW ROSES. 
The following interesting article written by H. B. 
EUwanger. for the July Century, will be especially appre¬ 
ciated by our readers. We regret that lack of space 
forbids our publishing it in full, but wo have, however, 
retained such portions as are of most interest. Mr. Ell- 
wanger says, by way of introduction, that It is worthy 
of note that our fathers and forefathers had in general 
a better nomenclature for their Boses than is used in 
these days! Such names as Bame Blanche, La Favorite, 
Kosalie, La Coquette, and those of the various mytho¬ 
logical characters—as Hebe. Juno, and Calypso—were 
freely used. Now the favorite roses are Dukes and 
Duchesses, Grants and Countesses, Lords and Ladies, 
Generals and Senators, till we wonder if there are any 
plebians left. 
There are many old Roses that should never be forgot¬ 
ten. though they have been pushed aside by new-comers, 
and are seldom to be found on sale at the florist’s. 
Blanchefleur, Madame Hardy. Madame Zcetman are 
delightfully fragrant, beautiful white Roses, whose 
places have not been filled by any of the usurping re- 
montants; and there are others, of the Provenfe and 
Damask families, nearly as fine as those named. In all 
our improvements, we have not yet bettered the quality 
of the old white summer Roses of thirty and forty 
years ago. The demand is now altogether for those 
varieties which bloom more than once, and in achieving 
freedom of bloom, we have lost in fragrance, have lost 
in hardiness; therefore, to leave out and cast aside these 
favorites of a generation that is passing away is surely a 
serious mistake. Others beside the old white summer 
Roses should be retained. There is the Centifolia, or 
Cabbage-Rose, so unfortunately named, which is yet a 
model for form and fragrance; there is the common 
Sweet Brier, with its bright orange-red heps.—not a 
flower for florists truly, but how attractive to the artist, 
how full of inspiration to the poet, how grateful to all 
who are pleased by fragrance! . For bright yellow 
shades, we yet look to the old Austrian Roses, so called, 
Harrison’s and Persian Yellow. Then what is more 
charming than the Moss-Roses ? What bouquet more 
beautiful than loose branches of the Gracilis, the com¬ 
mon and crested Moss-Roses ? 
The Charles Lawson, Coupe d’Hebe, Paul Ricaut, and 
some others of the old summer kinds are also very use¬ 
ful as pillar Roses; they have nearly everything that 
makes a Rose valuable, save the property of blossoming 
more than once. It must also be remembered that the 
old Roses were not alone such as bloomed in June only. 
Agrippina, Edward Desfosses, Hermosa, Souvenir de la 
Malmaison, Aimee Vibert Lamarque, Solfaterre, Bon 
Silene, Bougere, Davoniensis, Flavescens, Madame de 
Vatry, Xiphetos, Odorata, Safrano, Triomphe de Lux¬ 
embourg are members of the Bengal, Bourbon, Noisette, 
and Tea families, introduced more than fortj r years 
ago, and in none of these groups has any great advance 
been made. Certainly, many beautiful and distinct 
varieties have since been introduced, but the improve¬ 
ment in quality of these classes has been slight as com¬ 
pared to the advance made by the introduction of new 
groups. 
Roses of the present, as compared with thoco of the 
past, are superior by reason of the introduction of 
groups that are hardy, or nearly so, and that blossom at 
intervals and continuously through the summer and au¬ 
tumn. We remember the great interest awakened by 
the varieties sent out by Laffay, such as Madame La flay, 
Mrs. Elliott, and. a few years after, La Heine. The two 
former have nearly disappeared from cultivation; but 
La Reine is still much grown, and, like the General 
Jacqueminot, Victor Verdier, and Jules Margottiu, has 
beeu the progenitor of most of the hardy Roses cultivated 
at this day. 
It would astonish the uninitiated to learn the number, 
not only of those who propagate plants for sale, but 
those who are engaged in the production of new varieties 
from seed. Strange to say. the raising of new Roseslias 
been done successfully only in France and England. 
Italy and Germany have accomplished almost nothing 
in this line, although the climate of those countries is 
as favorable for the purpose as that of the other two; 
but in this they only follow the general line of horticul¬ 
tural progress, for Italy and Germany have prodireed 
few varieties of European fruits that are valuable. 
America has originated more fruitsof high quality than 
any other country, but her contributions to the list of 
good Roses, though larger than those of Italy and Ger- 
many. fall far short of what they should be. With an 
extent of territory that gives greater variation of cli¬ 
mate and soil than is to be found in any other country, 
it must be that America will yet produce her share of 
fine Roses. 
With the year 1842 appealed the Baronne Prevost, 
which is now the oldest type among hybrid remontant 
Roses. It is not a numerous family, and is of much less 
importance to us than many others, but we can well 
imagine what pleasure it gave when it was introduced 
to the rosarians of that day. The flowers are very large 
and full, flat in form, quite fragrant, and in color same 
shade of Rose. It is the most hardy type we have. The 
only varieties commonly grown are Boieldieu, Colonel 
de Rougemont, and Madame Boll. 
The General Jacqueminot, the head of what is now 
considered the most valuable type. made its bow in 
1852, to an admiring world; clad in rich crimson livery, 
it still commands respect and admiration, and marshaled 
under its generalship is the army of dark Roses which 
so excite and please. our senses by their charms and 
loveliness. This family probably originated from the 
old hybrid China, Gloire des Rosomanes; they are mod¬ 
erately hardy, but less so than those of the Baronne 
Prevost, Jules Margottiu, and La Reine types. The 
flowers are invariably shades of red and crimson, gen¬ 
erally highly perfumed, freely produced in the spring, 
•but varying greatly as to their autumnal bloom. As a 
family, they are much more shy in the autumn than 
any of the others. It is now the most numerous of the 
families, due to . the fact that popular taste inclines 
more to crimson than to light-colored Roses. 
In 1853, Jules Margottin, of Bourg-la-Reine, near 
Paris, sent out a fine Rose, which he called after himself. 
Though he has been raising seedling Roses ever since, 
