described in the catalogue on the faith of a French florist, before it bloomed here; it has not proved true to its description, as it is not margined, but it is a first-rate show rose.* Camaieu is one of the most distinct striped roses known. Its flowers are rather small, and sometimes not of a good form; still it is a very pretty rose. Comte de Murinais is a large flattish rose, of a slate-coloured ground, spotted with rose colour; a very distinct and good variety. Cramoisie Picotée is a distinct and curious slate-coloured spotted rose, not so pretty and brilliant as the Old Picotée; its spots have a reddish brown tinge. Delille is a new rose, very prettily spotted on a purple ground. Like most of the roses of this colour it is only to be seen in perfection in the morning, if the weather is sultry; but in cloudy weather it will retain its beauty the entire day. Duc de Trévise is a most beautiful rose, of first-rate form for a show rose, and of a robust and distinct habit. d'Orléans is also a fine and brilliant rose, large, finely cupped, and distinctly spotted with white, and of the most robust and vigorous habit. E'clatante is a rose that may be distinguished in a group, however crowded, as it is so ex Duc This term is applied to those varieties that produce very double and perfect flowers, fit to be exhibited singly, as dahlias are. tremely bright; it perhaps ought not to be called scarlet, yet no other term so well describes its colour. E'clat des Roses is a very double and large rose, of the most perfect form for a show rose. It seldom produces deformed or ill-shaped flowers; the plant is also of the most vigorous habit. To Fanny Parissot this description may also be applied, only that its colour is much more delicate. Fanny Bias is a name also given to this rose. Fanny Elsler is a new and pretty spotted rose, but it has not yet bloomed here in perfection. Fleur d'Amour is one of the most vivid-coloured roses in this group, much like Assemblage des Beautés, but more double. Grandissima is a most robust-growing and very large rose, likely to prove a show rose of first-rate excellence. Hortense Beauharnois is a fine and large rose, very delicately and slightly spotted with white. Iphigénie is also a good spotted variety, but, like the preceding, perhaps too delicately so to be called a variegated rose. The King of Rome, or Théodore de Corse (for they are one and the same), is a beautiful double and compact rose, so exactly like a double ranunculus, that it might almost be mistaken for one. Leopold is a fine dark rose, much like that old favourite the Tuscany Rose, but with smaller and more double flowers. La Capricieuse is indeed capricious, for some of its flowers are plain, and some most beautifully pencilled with white; which, on the vivid rose-coloured ground of this rose, has a pretty effect. La Moskowa is a large dark rose, not quite double enough for a show rose, but its flowers have a fine effect on the plant. Lafayette is a pencilled rose, quite different from the generality of these roses, and much like Nationale Tricolore; it is shaded with purple and crimson, and varies much with the season. Lady Peel is a most curious and pretty rose; some of its flowers are like a variegated rose-coloured hollyhock, very remarkable in their form and colour, but the variegation of this rose is not constant, for it often produces plain-coloured flowers, perhaps equally beautiful with those that are striped. La Nationale is a new and distinct variety, of a bright rose-colour, marbled and striped with crimson; one of the prettiest of its class. Lord Byron is a new and brilliant spotted rose, not producing large or very double flowers; but a desirable and pretty variety. Lucile is also a new spotted rose: this, like many of the new variegated roses, has, perhaps, owing to the change of climate, not yet bloomed in perfection. Madame Cottin is a large and well-shaped rose, adapted for a show rose; as is also Madame Dubarry, perhaps one of the very finest double roses known. These are both of the most vigorous habits and first-rate excellence. Malesherbes is a purple spotted rose, requiring to be kept from the hot sun; for, like all roses inclining to purple or slate-colour, it soon fades. Nationale Tricolore is one of the prettiest of variegated roses, generally shaded with red and purple, with a white or yellowish centre; but this central colour is not constant.* Oracle du Siècle is a most charming rose, perfect in form, and rich and beautiful in its fine crimson and scarlet colouring. Oriflamme is a rose which I ventured, last season, to describe as deep scarlet, on the faith of a very honourable florist, who raised it from seed. It has bloomed in this country, and proves to be a fine bright red rose, perhaps scarcely double enough. Picotée, or Violet Picotée, in some soils, produces flowers of a deep violet crimson, striped with white; in others it loses its variegation; but, under all circumstances, it is a pretty and most distinct rose. Princess Victoria was raised from seed at Linton in Cambridgeshire, by a Mr. Gimson. This is a fine brilliant crimson rose, and generally a good show flower, as it is very double, and regular in its form. * This has, since the above was written, proved so much like Belle de Fontenay that it can scarcely be distinguished from it. Re Porcelaine Royale is a beautifully shaped mottled rose; not large, but cupped, and perfect in its form, and adapted for a show rose. noncule Ponctuée, or the Spotted Ranunculus, is happily named; for it is much like a ranunculus both in its form and in the disposition of its colours. When this rose opens well (which, owing to the crowded state of its petals, it sometimes fails to do), it is a peculiar and beautiful variety. The Superb Tuscany is a seedling from the Old Tuscany, with larger and more double flowers; very dark, perhaps more so than those of its parent, yet their colour is not so brilliant. Sir Walter Scott is a good rose, finely shaped, of that deep purplish rose-colour which has a very rich appearance; it is well calculated for a show rose, as its shape is generally perfect. Sombrieul is a delicate spotted rose, something like Aurélie; probably having the same origin, as it was raised from seed by the same grower. Scabiosaflora has a tufted centre to the flower, much resembling the flower of the Scabious. Sophie Arnold is a prettily shaped, bright rosecoloured variety, spotted or marbled with crimson. Tricolor, or La Belle Alliance, is now a very old variety; in some soils producing flowers prettily striped with yellowish white, in others its flowers are quite plain. Tricolor Pompon seems to be merely a variety of the preceding, |