
JANUARY. 21 
' [regret that I cannot usher in the description of any new Rose 
with such a pleasant grandiloquent platitude as is now under my eye, 
applying to Rose catalogues, and which begins—‘“ One by one the 
autumn catalogues come dropping in; some in a summer’s dress, 
through which the mysterious type peers dimly, emblematic ”—I should 
say of £ s.d. I must not, however, ramble in this way, but return to 
our “brood,” to borrow a term of the new Roses that bloomed in 
England for the first time in 1859. 
The ‘‘ Géant ” seems to have been in France; a very good kind to 
breed from, for nearly all the dark crimson Roses recently raised are of 
his race. It is strange that although pecks of seed from the Géant and 
General Jacqueminot have been sown in England, not a single Hybrid 
Perpetual Rose has yet been raised worthy of aname. There seems a 
want of ‘‘vital force” in the seed, for those grand hips that Jules 
Margottin gave in 14856, 7, and 8—full of perfect seed—ought to have 
produced some fine Roses. 
Among the deep crimson Roses are Comte de Beaufort, which has 
not yet shown well, and four from M. Trouillard of Angers, viz., 
Dr. Brettonneau, Francis I., Francois Arago, and Eugene Appert. The 
three first are dwarf growing kinds, with flowers of the deepest crimson 
shaded with purple, all very double but not large; the latter has a 
more vigorous habit, and, if judged after the figure of it given by Mr. 
Andrews in the Flvrist for August last, is of the most wonderfully 
brilliant scarlet. I do not mean to assert that it is not after nature, 
but it is just one of those blooms that nature rarely gives, for although 
a very pretty rose, its scarlet petals are mixed with dark crimson, or at 
‘least generally so. There are several other dark crimson Roses, nearly 
all really nice varieties, such as Emperor of Morocco (Kmpereur de 
Maroc)—-we must, I think, now try to make into English all that we 
ean of the French names given to Roses—Altesse Imperiale, Mount 
Vesuvius (Le Mont Vesuve), Lord Elgin, Ambroise Verschaffelt, and 
Ardoissée de Lyon or the Slaty Rose, the ugliest of all colours in a Rose. 
The first of these is a truly magnificent variety, of deep blackish crimson, 
very rich, its flowers are also of a good size, very full, and finely 
shaped ; the second variety is also a Rose of great beauty. with smaller 
flowers very regularly formed, and of a rich crimson; Lord Elgin is 
also a very pretty dwarf dark crimson Rose—quite worthy of a place in 
our gardens if only for its well-chosen name. Anna Alexieff and 
Armide are said to be rose coloured tinted with salmon—sthe latter 
colour has not yet been very apparent. Two nice and very bright rose- 
coloured Roses are Anna de Diesbach, raised by Mr. Lacharme of Lyons, 
and Cecile de Chabrillan—Comtesse Cecile de Chabrillan, according to 
its raiser, M. Marest, and Cecile de Chebriana according to some 
catalogues. This is really a most beautiful bright pink Rose, not too full, 
and with an elegant cup. Oriflamme de St. Louis and Mignard are 
two seedlings said to have been raised from that beautiful Rose, General 
Jacqueminot; the former is a most robust grower, and it will doubtless 
form a vigorous growing pillar Rose—it has not, however, yet bloomed 
in anything like perfection—its colour has not been ‘ éblouissant,” as 
described, but of a dullish red; the latter, of a bright rose colour, has 
not yet shown any remarkable quality. 
