22 THE FLORIST. - 
There are some pale or flesh-coloured Roses, not likely to eclipse 
Madame Vidot and Madame Rivers, but still interesting to the amateur 
who likes to possess everything in Roses. Among these the best are 
Imperatrice Eugenie, making no less than four Roses bearing the name 
(viz., one Tea-scented, a poor Rose; one Bourbon, and one Perpetual 
Moss), Madame Bruny, Madame Jenny Varin, and Mathilde de 
Mandeville. 
There are some 10 to 15 Roses described by the French growers as 
‘rose vif” (bright rose), some of which may be worthy of a trial, but 
they have not yet shown any remarkable qualities. 
There are two Mademoiselles (how shall we English that name ? Mss 
will not do, it is so near mess), Betsy Haiman, ‘ ponceau vif,” which 
has not yet shown its Poppy colour, and Marie Boyer, in the same not- 
shown category. 
One of the most distinct Roses of this season is Virginal, which really 
is of a pure white, but with rather jagged petals and want of fulness. 
No white autumnal Rose as yet approached in beauty the Bourbon — 
Rose, Acidalie, when blooming in a warm autumn. Good new Roses, 
among the Tea-scented, are excessively rare ; there were ten varieties 
introduced in the autumn of 1858. Among these, Homer deserves the 
first place ; it is apparently a seedling from my favourite Acidalie, with 
much the same habit, and with large, very double, and finely cupped 
flowers of nearly pure white, very slightly tinted with pale rose; its 
perfume is very grateful. Madame Damaizin, Madame Falcot, and 
Madame Halphin, are three pretty Roses, tinted with salmon and fawn 
colour; they are perhaps lacking in fulness and shape, but another 
season may tell a different tale. The new rose-coloured Roses of this 
family are not worth naming. A Tea-scented Rose to surpass Adam 
and Souvenir d’un Ami must be something very extraordinary. 
There were twelve new Bourbon Roses ushered into the Rose world 
last autumn, among which Dr. Berthot, crimson ; Comtesse de Bor- 
bontane, Octavie Fontaine, and Madame Marechal, all pale flesh- 
coloured Roses, may be worthy of culture, but there is nothing new in 
any of them. Alas! that the day is past; “‘ once upon a time” how 
we hailed a new crimson Bourbon Rose. They are still beautiful, and 
often most beautiful in autumn ; but their equals in colour and superiors 
in perfume, the Hybrid Perpetuals, have placed them in the rear ranks 
of the Rose garden. 
Noisette Roses have received no additions from France worth naming, 
but from America we have two—Jane Hardy, which will be found very 
hard in the bud, and “America,” said to be a new yellow vigorous 
growing Rose, quite surpassing any yellow Rose yet seen (Cloth of Gold, 
clearly forgotten by our cousins), and to be most free in blooming, most 
hardy, and most wonderful; all which we shall believe “when we see 
what we shall see.” 
Prince Nor. 





