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” Gallica, Boula de Nanteuil. , 
Hybrid Bourbons, Coupe d’ Hebe, Charles Lawson, Paul, Ricaut.... 
“Hybrid Perpetuals; Comtesse Cecile de Chabrillant, Anna de Dies- 
“bach, ‘Comte de Nanteuil, General Jacqueminot, Jules Margottin, La 
» Reine; Louis Peyronney, Madame Masson;, Madame Hector Jacquin, 
“Mrs. Rivers,“Madame’ Vidot; Prince Leon, Lord Raglan, Triomphe. de 
’ Paris, Victor Trouillard; William Griffiths. 
(iJ leave you, dear brothers, in their sweet society. Tend them with 
all love and care; and then, as surely as from the Rose trees of sunnier 
France comes the, glory of our English gardens, you shall rejoice to 
repeat from a thankful heart,—‘* Rosk est BoNHEUR!” 
LATE-BLOOMING ROSES. 
My attention all this month, and the preceding one of October, has been 
drawn, to.a.bed of Roses, consisting of a score or two of dwarf plants, 
_which haye had an unceasing succession of beautiful flowers, far beyond 
, anything I, have ever seen,in autumn-blooming Roses. On looking 
;anto them 1 found them to be a new variety of Hybrid Perpetual Rose 
, called, L’ Etoile du Nord, which was one of the new Roses of 1860, con- 
_demned as not being up to my standard, its petals being thin, and the 
o> Rose, although very large and of a brilliant crimson, seeming an inferior 
,avariety.of, General, Jacqueminot, from which one would judge it had 
been raised, As the treatment of these Roses may be of interest, and 
lead toa new and simple mode of cultivating Roses for blooming very 
_plate in the season, I will, in a few words, give it. 
.. Lhe.original plants were received from France in December, 1859, 
~ with, other new Roses,.and their shoots taken off in January and grafted 
,on, Manetti, stocks in the grafting-house, where, of course, artificial 
heat is employed., They grew well, and bloomed abundantly, in a cool 
house, in Apri land May, but, as I have said, their flowers not being 
“thought first-rate, the plants were suffered to remain in small 4-inch 
‘spots till the-middle of June; and then planted out, not being thought 
“Gyorthy of further pot: cultivation. The ground they were planted in 
‘owas’ heavily manured, so’that they: grew very freely, but. were not 
- noticed’ till the beginning of October, when the bed was observed to be 
‘a mass of buds and blossoms; the latter quite globular, and of extra- 
‘ordinary beauty, and so they have continued to be till this day, the 
°-24th’of November. A large bouquet of them would have been shown 
at the meeting of the Floral Committee in November, but in the hurry 
tof business they were forgotten... Now this simple fact seems to tell us, 
® that what has resulted from accident may be carried out by Rose- 
® cultivators, and lead’ toa method by which our Rose gardens may be 
made more beautiful in autumn than they have yet been. 
The rationale of the matter seems to be this. The plants, from 
being cramped in their growth in early summer, when all their energies 
are in full play, hasten in autumn to make up for lost. time, and thus 
grow and bloom in the greatest vigour. In the Gardeners’ Chronicle, 
