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JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE  GARDENER. 
December  3,  1896. 
Roses  akd  Her  Majesty. 
Relative  to  the  coming  celebration  of  the  Queen’s  sixtieth  year 
of  sovereignty  we  have  been  reminded  by  Mr.  Cannell  in  the  JourTuil 
of  Horticulture  that  in  all  phases  of  horticulture,  equally  with  other 
matters,  there  has  been  an  immense  stride  during  the  past  sixty  years. 
In  Roses  this  has  been  gradual,  especially  if  we  consider  that  it  is 
during  the  last  thirty  years  or  less  that  any  special  attention  has  been 
paid  to  this  popular  flower.  It  occurred  to  me  that  a  selection  of 
what  may  be  generally  considered  the  best  Roses  of  the  year  since  Her 
Majesty’s  ascension  might  prove  interesting.  It  is  merely  a  list  of 
names,  and  I  give  them  in  due  order,  commencing  with  1837.  In  a  few 
cases  it  may  be  that  a  variety  I  have  allotted  to  one  year  is  taken 
exception  to  by  some  readers,  as  more  rightly  belonging  to  the  year 
previous  or  following. 
Might  not  the  N.R.S.  embody  an  extra  division  in  their  schedule  for 
the  year  1897?  Say,  six  classes,  each  to  be  confined  to  Roses  intro¬ 
duced  during  the  decades  1837-46,  1847-56,  and  so  on  up  to  the  present 
time.  There  might,  perhaps,  be  an  advantage  in  extending  the  two  first 
classes  to  twenty  years  each,  and  then  continue  with  the  two  last  decades. 
Appended  is  a  list  of  varieties  available,  but  there  are,  of  course,  many 
others  that  may  still  be  grown  in  some  gardens  or  collections.  In  the 
abreviations  P.  stands  for  Provence,  G.  for  Gallica,  0.  for  China,  B.  for 
Bourbon,  T.  for  Teas  or  Noisettes,  and  M.  for  Mosses.  The  remainder, 
excepting  a  few  odd  varieties,  are  all  H.  Perpetnais  or  H.  Teas. 
1837—1846. 
Ana'is  L^gais  (p),  Arlequin  (g),  1837,  pale  yellow  ;  Acidale  (b), 
E.  Beamharnais  (C),  Miss  House,  Devoniensis  (t),  1838  ;  Alain  Blan¬ 
chard  (p),  Safrano  (t),  Comte  de  Paris  (t),  1839 ;  Ch(^n4do]6,  Coupe 
d’Heb4,  Armosa  (b),  1840;  Glillet  Parfait  (G),  Ophirie  (t),  1841  ; 
La  Reine,  1842  ;  Souvenir  de  la  Malmaison  (b),  Baronne  Prevost,  Comtesse 
de  Murinas  (M),  Gonbault  (T),  Solfaterre  (T),  Cloth  of  Gold  (t), 
Abricot4  (t),  1843  ;  Eulalie  Lebiun  (G),  Niphetos  (T),  Moir4  (t), 
Vicomtesse  Decazes  (t),  1844  ;  Blairi  No.  2 ;  Perle  des  Panaches  (G), 
Madame  Willermoz  (t).  Fortune’s  Yellow  (t),  -De  la  Grifferaie,  1845  ; 
Lanei  (M),  Princesse  Royale  (m),  G4ant  des  Batailles,  Madame  de 
St.  Joseph  (T),  Souvenir  d’un  Ami  (t),  1846. 
1847—1856. 
Merc4d4s  (G),  La  Pactole  (T),  Melaine  Willermoz  (t),  1847  ;  Douglas 
(O),  Madame  Bravy  (t),  1848  ;  none  in  1849  worthy  of  mention  ;  Madame 
Rivers,  William  Griffiths,  1850  ;  Sombreuil  (t),  Auguste  Mie,  Blanche 
Lafitte  (b),  Louis  Odier  (b),  1851  ;  Sir  J.  Paxton,  Gloire  des  Monsieuses 
(M),  David  Pradel  (t),  Pauline  Labont4  (T),  1852  ;  G4n4ral  Jacqueminot, 
Jules  Margottin,  Charles  Lawson,  Gloire  de  Dijon  (t),  Canari  (t),  1853 ; 
Baron  de  Wassenaer  (M),  Blanche  Moreau  (m),  Madame  Edouard  Cry 
(m),  Salet  (M),  Princesse  de  Vaudemot  (m).  Souvenir  d’Elise  Vardon  (t), 
Lord  Raglan,  1854  ;  Capt.  J.  Ingram  (M),  Madame  Vidot,  Charles  Wood 
(not  Madame  C.  Wood),  Cornelia  Kook  (t),  Louise  de  Savoie  (t),  1855  ; 
William  Lobb  (m),  Imp4ratrice  Eugenie  (m),  1856. 
1857—1866. 
La  Noblesse  (P),  Tour  de  Malakofi  (p),  Triomphe  de  Rennes  (t), 
1857  ;  Comtesse  C.  de  Chabrillant,  Reine  Blanche  (m),  Cdline 
Forestier  (T),  Madame  Falcot  (t),  1858  ;  S4nateur  Vaisse,  Victor 
Verdier,  Madame  C.  Crapelet,  Empereur  de  Maroc,  Anna  Alexieff, 
FranQois  Arago,  Anna  de  Diesbach,  Rmbens  (t),  Hom4re  (t).  Due  de 
Magenta  (t),  Socrates  (t),  1859 ;  Dr.  Marjolin  (m),  Guilletta  (b), 
Eugdne  Appert,  La  Boule  d’Or  (T),  1860  ;  Charles  Lefebvre,  Maurice 
Bernardin,  Prince  C.  de  Rohan,  Mar4cha]  Vaillant,  1861  ;  Beauty  of 
Waltham,  John  Hopper,  Due  de  Rohan,  1862  ;  Duchesse  de  Morny, 
Marie  Baumann,  Pierre  Netting,  Centifolia  Rosea,  Madame  Victor 
Verdier,  Souvenir  de  Charles  Montault,  1863  ;  Dr.  Andry,  Duke  of 
Wellin^on,  Marguerite  de  St.  Amand,  Xavier  Olibo,  Mens.  Boncenne, 
Mardchal  Niel  (t),  Madame  Charles  (T),  1864  ;  Alfred  Colomb,  Fisher 
Holmes,  Marie  Rady,  Abel  Grand,  Camille  Bernardin,  1865  ;  Annie 
Wood,  Horace  Vernet,  Mons.  Noman,  Madame  Margottin  (t),  Mons. 
Furtado  (t),  1866. 
1867—1876. 
Baroness  Rothschild,  La  France,  Boule  de  Neige,  Miss  Ingram, 
Isabella  Sprunt  (t),  1867  ;  Duke  of  Edinburgh,  Dupuy  Jamain,  1868  ; 
Comtesse  d’Oxford,  Bugdnie  Verdier,  Louis  Van  Houtte,  Marquise  de 
Castellane,  Paul  Neyron,  Catherine  Mermet  (t),  Belle  Lyonnaise  (t), 
Rive  d’Or  (t),  1869  ;  Madame  Bdrard  (T),  Emilie  Dupuy  (T),  1870  ; 
Etienne  Levet,  Francois  Michelon,  Le  Havre,  Comtesse  de  Nadaillac  (t)  ; 
Souvenir  de  Paul  Neyron  (t),  Ma  Capucin  (t),  1871 ;  Madame  Lacharme, 
Marie  Cointet,  Amazone  (t),  Caroline  Kuster)  (T),  Anna  Ollivier  (t), 
Marie  Van  Houtte  (t),  Boule  d’Or  (t),  1872  ;  Paul’s  Reynolds  Hole, 
Thomas  Mills,  Captain  Christy,  Cheshunt  Hybrid,  1873  ;  Jeanne 
Ducher  (t),  Perle  des  Jardins  (t),  1874  ;  Abel  Oarri^re,  Prince  Arthur, 
Star  of  Waltham,  Commandant  Beaurepaire,  Souvenir  de  Madame 
Pernet,  1875  ;  Duke  of  Connaught,  Sultan  of  Zanzibar,  Mrs.  Baker, 
Comtesse  Riza  du  Parc  (t),  1876. 
1876—1886. 
A.  K.  Williams,  Madame  Gabriel  Luizet,  Marie  Verdier,  Madame 
Lambard  (t),  1877  ;  Madame  EugSne  Verdier,  Reine  Marie  Henriette, 
Innocente  Pirola  (t),  W.  Allen  Richardson  (T),  1878  ;  Duchess  of  Bed¬ 
ford,  Countess  of  Rosebery,  Setina  (b),  Francisca  Kruger  (T),  Madame 
Alfred  Carriere,  1879 ;  Comtesse  de  Ludre,  Madame  Isaac  Periere  (b), 
Crown  Prince,  Cecile  Brunner,  Catherine  Soupert,  1880;  Pride  of 
Waltham.  Ulrich  Brunner,  Camoens,  Etoile  de  Lyon  (T),  Madame 
Cuain  (T),  1881  ;  Merveille  de  Lyon,  Lady  Mary  Fitzwilliam,  Edith 
Gifford  (t).  Princess  of  Wales  (t),  Souvenir  de  Thdr^se  Levet  (t),  1882  ; 
Eclair,  Susanne  Marie  Rodocanachi,  Madame  de  Watteville  (T),  Papa 
Gontier  (t),  Perle  d’Or,  Sunset  (t),  1883  ;  Victor  Hugo,  Grace  Darling, 
Gloire  Lyonnaise,  1884  ;  Her  Majesty,  Pride  of  Reigate,  The  Bride  (T), 
1886  ;  Viscountess  Folkestone,  Polyantha  grandiflora,  Dr.  Grill  (t), 
Luciole  (t),  Madame  Chauvry  (t),  1886. 
1887—4896. 
Earl  of  Dufferin,  Laurette  Messimy  (c),  Mrs.  John  Laiug,  Gloire  de 
Margottin,  Bardou  Job,  Ethel  Browlow  (t),  Madame  Hoste  (t), 
L’Iddal  (T),  Madame  Georges  Bruant,  1887  ;  Sir  Rowland  Hill,  Marquis 
of  Salisbury,  Margaret  Boudet,  Claire  Jacquier,  Ernest  Metz  (t),  1888  ; 
A.  Guinnoiseau,  Gustave  Piganeau,  Cleopatra  (T),  Souvenir  de  S.  A. 
Prince  (t).  Climbing  Niphetos  (T),  Kaiserin  Frederick  (t),1889  ;  Caroline 
Testout,  White  Lady,  Gustave  Regis,  Elisa  Fugier  (T),  Climbing  Perle 
des  Jardins  (T),  1890;  Margaret  Dickson,  Kaiserin  A.  Victoria,  Mrs. 
Paul  (b).  La  Fraicheur,  Medea  (t),  1891  ;  Lady  Henry  Grosvenor,  Janet’s 
Pride,  Duke  of  Fife,  Golden  Gate  (t),  1892  ;  Marchioness  of  London¬ 
derry,  Mrs.  Harkness,  Crimson  Rambler,  Marquise  Litta,  Beaut4  Incon- 
stante  (t).  Bridesmaid  (T),  Corinna  (T),  Maman  Cochet  (T),  1893  ;  Clio, 
Marchioness  of  Downshire,  Mrs.  R.  G.  Sbarman  Crawford,  Charlotte 
Guillemot,  Clara  Watson,  Madame  Joseph  Cointet,  the  Hybrid  Sweet 
Briars,  Madame  E.  Helfenbein.  Alister  Stella  Gray,  1894;  Helen  Keller, 
Marjorie,  Mrs.  W.  J.  Grant,  Mavourneen,  Carmine  Pillar,  1895  ;  Ellen 
Drew,  Tom  Wood,  Bladud,  Muriel  Grahame  (T),  Mrs.  Pierpoint  Morgan 
(t),  and  the  H.  Sweet  Briars  of  1895,  with  almost  the  whole  of  the 
miniature  Polyanthus,  and  others. 
This  makes  a  formidable  list,  and  I  would  further  suggest  that  the 
classes  for  the  first  three  decades  be  made  for  twelve  varieties  only,  and 
the  remaining  three  classes  for  eighteen  or  twenty- four  varieties.  I 
throw  out  this  suggestion  for  what  it  is  worth,  and  would  like  to  hear 
the  opinions  of  other  Rose  growers. — A.  Piper. 
Old  Roses. 
In  reply  to  “A.  D.,”  page  426, 1  do  not  remember  writing  that  our  old 
friend  G4n4ral  Jacqueminot  was  “  the  oldest  Hybrid  Perpetual,”  but  as 
one  of  the  oldest  really  good  ones  that  are  still  in  great  demand.  G4ant 
des  Batailles  was  intr^uced  by  N4rard  in  1846,  some  seven  years 
previous  to  G4n4ral  Jacqueminot.  La  Reine  was  sent  out  in  1842  ;  I 
have  also  known  it  as  Reine  des  FranQais,  and  Reine  du  Midi,  Mons. 
Roland  introducing  it  under  this  name  in  1868.  After  all  the  G4n4ral 
is  the  best  and  most  reliable  Hybrid  Perpetual,  Devoniensis  being  about 
the  oldest  of  our  good  Teas,  although  Adam  was  introduced  some  five 
years  earlier.  If  we  except  these,  Niphetos,  Souvenir  de  la  Malmaison, 
Lanei,  Souvenir  d’un  Ami,  Madame  Bravy,  Gloire  de  Dijon,  Souvenir 
d’Elise  Vardon,  C41ine  Forestier,  Madame  Falcot,  Rubens,  and  S6nateur 
Vaisse,  we  must  go  well  into  the  sixties  before  finding  many  that  would 
still  be  considered  first-class. — A.  P. 
Rose  Analysis. 
The  analysis  of  the  blooms  actually  exhibited  by  Mr.  R.  H.  Langton 
in  issue  of  October  25th  is  very  interesting,  but  it  would  have  been  far 
more  so  had  he,  in  brackets  to  each,  given  the  number  of  plants.  In  my 
own  experience  I  have  rarely  been  able  to  exhibit  Hon.  E .  Gifford,  from 
the  fact  that  it  so  often  stares  me  out  of  countenance.  Floriferous 
it  truly  is,  and  were  every  bud  allowed  to  bloom  I  fancy  no  Rose 
would  give  a  greater  number  in  proportion  to  the  size  of  the  plant, 
but  it  fails  in  the  quality  of  modesty  with  me,  and  that  is  a  sad  blot 
on  the  escutcheon  of  a  good  bloom.  I  have  always  been  surprised  that 
in  “E.  M.’s”  yearly  analysis  it  stands  so  high.  I  would  endorse  all  he 
says  as  to  Maman  Cochet,  except  that  hitherto  I  have  seen  no  coarseness. 
It  is  a  Rose  that  everyone  will  have,  whether  exhibitor  or  not ;  it  is 
free  in  growth  with  plenty  of  quality  and  plenty  of  bloom.  It  must 
soon  be  very  high  up  in  any  analysis. 
Again,  with  me  Innocente  Pirola  is  a  disappointment  as  regards 
exhibition  ;  very  rarely  do  I  find  one  that  I  would  desire  to  stage.  The 
position  of  Marie  Van  Houtte  and  Catherine  Mermet  is  to  me  the  most 
astonishing,  the  latter  especially,  although  I  do  not  think  the  past 
season  quite  agreed  with  it.  It  is  generally  in  my  eyes  the  perfection 
of  a  Rose,  and  I  recollect  a  friend  of  mine,  judging  with  me  at  a  show, 
rather  objecting  to  giving  a  bloom  the  N.R.S.  medal,  because,  said 
he,  “  It  is  too  easy  to  grow,  it  cannot  grow  badly.”  Madame  de 
Watteville  in  my  hands  has  been  the  most  tender  of  all  the  Teas,  and 
has  never  given  me  but  one  good  bloom,  but  that  certainly  was  one  of 
the  Roses  that  dwell  in  my  memory.  Captain  Christy  is  another 
most  disappointing  Rose  to  me,  and  I  do  not  think  I  have  ever  grown  a 
bloom  that  really  pleased  me ;  it  is  rough  and  ragged.  Two  or  three 
times  I  have  given  it  up  and  have  taken  to  it  again,  because  it  was  in  such 
beauty  in  a  friend’s  garden.  I  have  eight  or  ten  plants  now,  but  never 
find  a  bloom  that  I  would  care  to  exhibit,  unless  it  were  because  I 
could  not  help  myself. 
Possibly  the  age  of  Roses,  which  I  presume  dates  from  their  intro-  ^ 
duction  to  the  public  by  sale,  when  brought  out  is  as  uncertain  as  a 
