Madame Clemence Joigneaux

Were I asked to point out a Rose-tree which I considered a specimen of healthful habit and good constitution, I know of none which I should prefer before M. C. J., with its long, strong, sapful shoots, its broad, clear, shining leaves, and its grand, cupped, carmine flowers.

Marechal Vaillant

Marechal Vaillant well merits his baton for distinguished conduct in the garden; and, in his bright crimson uniform, is never absent from his post, nor ever fails to distinguish himself when the wars of the Roses are fought in the tented field.

Oriflamme De St Louis

Oriflamme De St Louis, somewhat loose and tattered in its folds (petals), as ancient standards are, but of a brilliant, dazzling (eblouissant) scarlet, suffused with a peculiar blue violet tint. In complexion, at all events, a son worthy of his sire, being "issue de la Rose, General Jacqueminot".

Souvenir De La Heine D'Angleterre

Souvenir De La Heine D'Angleterre, one of the largest Roses in cultivation, and, though seldom supplying the symmetrical blooms which are required for the keen eye of a censor, a beautiful and effective Pillar Rose. The colour of its flower is a soft rosy pink.

Triomphe De Vexposition

Triomphe De Vexposition is another Rose to be admired in our gardens as a tree rather than scrutinised at our shows as a flower. It bears an abundance of bright crimson and charming Roses, of good shape, but of medium size.

There are, doubtless, several other Hybrid Perpetual Roses which may be grown as successful specimens of the Pillar Rose, but I have only enumerated those which I have proved. Charles Lefebvre, Francois Lacharme, and Madame Rivers, for example, have been commended by some rosarians for the purpose, but they have not succeeded with me in that special department, though, of course, I grow them abundantly, and shall presently speak their praise. Again, I have not included among the single specimens certain varieties, as beautiful perhaps as any which are there, but more appropriate to form centre-pieces of beds, to be placed at the back of beds, or on either side of walks with other Roses; because, only blooming once, they are wont to look conspicuously dreary, in solitude and separation, when their summer flowers have fallen. No Rose-trees can be more admirably adapted for the pyramidal form, owing to their luxuriant growth and bloom, than Blairii 2, a perplexing title (transposed to "Bleary Eye" by a cottager of my acquaintance), until we receive the explanation that the Rose was one of two seedlings raised by Mr Blair of Stamford Hill, near London. No. 1 is worthless, but No. 2, with its large globular flowers, the petals deepening from a most delicate flesh colour without to a deep rosy blush within, is a gem of purest ray serene.

A bloom of it, cut from the tree before it was fully expanded, in the intermediate state between a bud and a Rose, and tastefully placed with a frond of Adiantum (Cuneatum, Sanctsc Catharinge, or Tenerum) in her back hair, would make even a Fury good-looking. It belongs to the hybrid China family, as does:

Brennus

Brennus, far more happy as a Climbing Rose than when, scaling with his Gauls the Tarpeian rock, he woke up the geese who woke up the Romans to repel him headlong, and to save their capital. It is a most free-growing, free-blooming varietj', with large deep carmine flowers.

Charles Lawson

Charles Lawson, a hybrid from the Isle de Bourbon Rose, makes a noble specimen, producing magnificent blooms of a bright glowing pink abundantly in all seasons. This glorious Rose well deserves all those adjectives expressive of beauty which, I begin to fear, my readers will regard as wearisome and vain repetitions. I can only plead that the epithets are true, and cry "Excuse tautology!" as I once heard a parrot scream for the best part of a summer's day.

Chenedolle, Hybrid China

Chenedolle, Hybrid China, is a very attractive garden Rose. Not "an article which will bear the closest inspection" of anatomical eyes, but adding greatly to the general effect of the Rosarium with its vivid crimson flowers.

Coupe D'Hebe, Hybrid Bourbon

Coupe D'Hebe, Hybrid Bourbon, is perhaps a size smaller than we should have expected Hebe's cup to be, considering the requirements of such inflammatory personages as Jupiter, Mars, and Bacchus. Probably, when the gods set up a butler, as they did on the dismissal of Hebe, in the person of Ganymede, they may have enlarged their goblets; but it was a fashion of the ancients, including our own grandfathers, to take their wine from egg-cups and extinguishers of glass. Be this as it may, Coupe d'Hebe is undoubtedly one of our most graceful and refined Roses, exquisite in form and in colour, the latter a silvery blush. Referring to a list of the Roses which I grew in 1851, I find that, of 434 varieties, 410 have been disannulled to make way for their betters! Of the two dozen which are in office still, three-fourths are climbing or decorative Roses, and six only of sufficient merit to pass the ordeal of exhibition - namely, Blairii 2, Cloth-of-Gold, Devoniensis, La Reine, Souvenir de Malmaison, and Coupe d'He'be'.

There was another General Jacqueminot, a hybrid China Rose, in high favour at that time; and though he cannot compete with his modern namesake, his regimentals being neither so well made nor so brilliant, he is still a very handsome hero, and forms, with his vigorous branches and fine large purple-crinison flowers, a fine Pillar Rose. So does:

Juno, H. C

Juno, H. C, a Rose which, like the goddess, may justly complain of neglect, appearing in few gardens, and well deserving a place in all. I must allow that Juno is sometimes "inconstant;" nor does the sorrowful fact surprise us, foreknowing the provocation of her husband Jupiter; but she is, generally, all that a good Rose ought to be, and then most divinely fair. We have so few Roses of her pale delicate complexion, that, until we are favoured with more Per-petuals of the Caroline de Sansales style, Juno is a most valuable Rose, large and full, and, in her best phase, an effective flower for exhibition. Paul Perras, H. B., is another valuable Rose in this section, of robust growth, and producing plentifully its well-shaped blooms, of a light rose-colour.

Paul Ricaut, H. B

Paul Ricaut, H. B, was once the swell of the period, the D'Orsay in our beau monde of Roses; and though no longer a leader of fashion, he is still a very attractive member of society. Upon the tree its large, closely-petalled, rich crimson flowers are most beautiful; but it is not reliable as a show Rose, expanding rapidly, and too often displaying a large "eye," on his arrival at the Exhibition, as though astonished by the splendour of the scene.