This rose was regarded as a most remarkable sport, and some attention was attracted to it even in this country where anything claiming to be "fancy" among roses is sure to have a good run. But it appears from a note in the Journal des Roses, that it was a case of merely temporary change, as we often see in our own country with Homer and other roses, and that the original observer was not a man with the floricultural knowledge to know the value of these temporary changes. This is the charitable view, although the Journal puts a harsher construction on it. However, the following is a translation which we find in the number for May 1st:

"Rose amateurs will, we are sure, learn with great interest, that the pretended new rose, Lusiades, has flowered in our establishment. It has occupied full sheets of advertisements in many publications, where it was certified that the flowers were of a golden yellow with carmine spots.

" When we received it we remarked that the plant in every way resembled Celine Forestier. The pretended raiser might have offered it as a fixed sport of that old rose. But now we can certify that Rosa Lusiades, which has flowered with us, is nothing else than Noisette Celine Forestier.

" It is also curious to state that this rose has already been sent out under the name of Liesis. It is therefore evident that Mr. Da Costa, who sent out Rosa Lusiades at the enormous price of 5of., and who does not reply to any letters which complain of his behavior, has deceived the horticultural public. SOUPERT & NOTTING." " Luxembourg, April, 1885".