I send you by to-day's mail a few blooms of the new Polyantha rose Mignonette, also two small plants of the same variety. I considered it last winter the finest novelty we had in new roses. The habit of the plant is good. It is a very free bloomer, producing flowers in open ground from June until severe frost stops them in Fall. It will no doubt prove as hardy as Anna Marie de Montraval, enduring our winters with slight protection. There is another Polyantha rose not well known, Mdlle Cecile Bruner. When I first bloomed it two years ago, I did not think it was very nice, as it showed a kind of salmon pink color; but on trying it.out in open ground last year on a large scale it proved to be one of the finest roses in our collection of its class. The color of the flowers was better than under glass, showing a fine pink, and the clusters were very fine; some containing as many as twenty-five distinct flowers about an inch in diameter and double; the plants were in bloom until November. We have also a great many other New French and English roses that are very fine.

[Certainly very pretty. These roses make bouquets in themselves, and this new class will assuredly become very popular. - Ed. G. M.]