(1861)  Includes photo(s).
 
This beautiful Rose is of American origin, and was introduced to the public last year through Mr. William Paul, of the Cheshunt Nurseries, Waltham Cross, by whom some magnificent specimens were furnished for our drawing in the course of the past summer. We can only regret that our limited page by no means does justice to the admirably cultivated examples furnished by our friend.
The 'President' rose has been exhibited before the chief metropolitan authorities, and has borne away the honours of a first-class certificate from the Royal Botanic Society, and from the Floral Committee of the Horticultural Society. The beautiful blossoms produced by the plants exhibited on the occasions referred to, well entitled it to such distinction.
We learn from Mr. Paul that the plant is of free growth and of a hardy character, being, in regard to habit and constitution, very similar to the variety called 'Caroline' which was one of its parents. Its wood is of a firm and rather wiry character, and its foliage bold and healthy-looking, while the flowers, which are globular in form, are large, full of firm smooth petals, and very sweet. The color is blush, tinged in the younger stages with salmony-buff, as shown in our figure, but in the older stages the latter tint more or less passes away. Mr. Paul describes the colours as fawn and salmon, varying somewhat according to the season at which it blooms. The plants bloom freely and force well. The variety is no doubt a decided acquisition to the group to which it belongs, and will take rank among the very best sorts.  It resembles the Tea-scented kind called 'Adam', more nearly than any other rose, but is hardier in constitution, and sufficiently distinct to entitle it to general cultivation. If cultivated out of doors the flowers are given forth at short intervals from July to November.
Text accompanies plate 29
 

(1880)  Page(s) Plate 454.  Includes photo(s).
 
Tea-Rose-Mademoiselle Adrienne Christophle
Sometimes the centre was of a beautiful salmony pink...sometimes a rich coppery rose, and at other times a soft peach, and now at the end of September it is putting forth a fresh supply of shoots and blossoms...
This beautiful rose was raised by our friend Mons. Guillot fils of Lyons...

(1870)  Page(s) 494.  
 
The anticipation which we formed last year that the two roses which are figured in this favourite class, Mademoiselle Adrienne Christophle and Mademoiselle Marie Sisley, would prove roses of first-rate excellence, has been justified by the judgment of most rose growers ; and wherever they have been exhibited we have seen them much admired. The past season has witnessed the introduction of many varieties, but it remains a matter of question whether we have any amongst them to equal these two fine roses.

(1869)  Page(s) plate 454.  Includes photo(s).
 
From The Floral Magazine, 1869, plate 454.
Tea-Rose — Mademoiselle Adrienne Christophle.

The additions made the last two or three years to our tea- scented roses, bid fair to drive some of the older varieties out of cultivation;many of them were very delicate in habit, and the flowers very flimsy and loose, whereas we are now getting stout-petalled flowers of the same colours, and with good habit of growth. We shall not care soon to have to humour such varieties as Madame William or Elise Sauvage, when we can get such flowers as Madame Margottin, or the very beautiful variety figured in our plate, and so admirably rendered by our artist.
We have had a fine plant of Mademoiselle Adrienne Christophle blooming in our garden during the summer, and nothing could be more beautiful than its flowers. Sometimes the centre was of a beautiful salmony pink colour as figured, sometimes a rich coppery rose, and at other times a soft peach, and now at the end of September it is putting forth a fresh supply of shoots and blossoms which will make the plant gay until the frost overtakes it; for this is one of the best qualities in these fragrant roses, that they are true perpetuals, many of those so-called being only so in name.
This beautiful rose was raised by our friend Mons. Guillot fils, of Lyons, and adds another to the triumphs which he has obtained as a raiser of new roses; leaving aside roses of an older date, La France, Horace Vernet, Madame Margotiin, Mons. Furtado, and Mademoiselle Adrienne Christophle will be sufficient to show how very successful he has been. We understand that he has other new flowers to be sent out this autumn, which we doubt not will maintain his past reputation. It has been exhibited in the stands of new roses this season, and has been much admired.

(Jul 1876)  Page(s) tab 217.  
 
Plate 217.
CLEMATIS LANUGINOSA VIOLACEA.
The Clematis is one of the most beautiful and, at the same time, one of the most modern of all garden flowers. The oldest hybrid was raised barely thirty years ago, and now we have them by the hundred, and improvements in form and colour are taking place every year. The beautiful variety we have selected for figuring was shown by Mr. Noble, of Bagshot, for the first time in April last, and was awarded a first-class certificate by the Floral Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society as a most desirable decorative plant, either for pot-culture or as an out-door plant for covering rock-work, rooteries, or trellises in sheltered situations, where the great flowers will not be injured by rough winds or heavy rains. The individual blooms of this variety (which is one of the most attractive of all the varieties belonging to this section of the genus) vary in size, but are rarely less than seven inches in diameter, the sepaline segments being of great substance.
In addition to this fine variety, Mr. Noble has also received certificates this year for C. " President," another effective dark purplish variety (the result of an attempt to gain an early-flowered form of the C. Jackmanii type), and C. Proteus, a rosy purple double or semi-double flower, which is likely to be the forerunner of a very useful race. At the last meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society Mr. Noble exhibited a very pale lilac or nearly white variety of C. Jackmanii, and this we consider is a welcome addition to the group to which it belongs, as from it a pure white seedling will doubtless soon be obtained, a result hitherto hoped for in vain. What is now wanted is a race of hybrids between C. Jackmanii or C. lanuginosa and the lovely old C. montana, which is one of the hardiest, earliest, and most floriferous of all the species now grown in our gardens. It seems singular that such graceful plants as Clematis should be so rarely used in our gardens to produce pleasing landscape or gardenesque effects ; for it cannot but be allowed that they are capable of adding more beauty to the garden than almost any other climbing plant, if we except the Rose ; and these two plants and fresh green Ivy might be associated in a hundred different ways, either in beds or borders, or on walls, tree-trunks, trellises, or over bowers and verandahs, where their great delicate- tinted flowers could be viewed to the best advantage.

(Jul 1864)  Page(s) tab 153.  Includes photo(s).
 
It is to Mr. Robert Fortune, who has more perhaps than any one living enriched our gardens with plants capable of bearing the extremes to which we are subjected in our variable climate, that we are indebted for the possession of these two very beautiful plants. They form part of the treasures sent home by him during his recent visit to Japan, and have been flowered by Mr. Standish, of the Ascot and Bagshot Nurseries, by whom they have been exhibited during the present season at our great metropolitan exhibitions, at all of which they have been very deservedly admired, and received on each occasion the highest awards that it was in the power of the judges to bestow. We are indebted to Mr. Standish’s courtesy for the opportunity of figuring them, and to Mr. Fortune for the following brief notes concerning them.
“ Clematis Fortunei , a very fine species, was found in gardens near Yedo, the capital of Japan. Its large white flowers, which it produces in profusion, were striking objects even at a considerable distance, and were much admired by the Japanese. The first blooms which it has produced in England, give but little idea of its real beauty. In Japan they are frequently tinted with pink and rose colour. It will probably prove as hardy in England as the other species of Japanese Clematis, and will be invaluable as a creeper in our greenhouses and conservatories. ...In the report of the Floral Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society (Proceedings, vol. iii. p.227) they are thus described: “ Clematis Fortunei, a magnificent hardy Japanese climber with downy ternate leaves, the terminal leaflet of which in the plant produced was three-lobed. The flowers are very large, double, white, and with a delicious scent somewhat resembling orange blossom; the flowers were remarkable for having the sepals stalked, instead of sessile ; it was a very distinct and remarkably fine plant. ...Both plants were awarded first-class certificates.

(1870)  Page(s) plates 495-496.  Includes photo(s).
 
Clematis — Miss Bateman, Mrs. Lister, Lord Napier, & Lady Londesborough.
No climbing plant has received of late years so much attention as the Clematis, and none have more richly rewarded the labours of those who have attempted to improve them by hybridization.  We have already described the great success of Mr. George Jackman, of Woking, in the production of such kinds as Jackmanni, Prince of Wales, Rubella, Magnifica, and Mrs. Bovill, and every season confirms the good opinion we have entertained of them.  The varieties which are now figured are of an entirely different strain; for whereas those raised by Mr. Jackman are hybrids between viticella and lanuginosa, and are summer and autumn flowering plants, those which have been raised by Mr. Noble of Sunningdale, are hybrids of a different character, and are early-flowering. They have been exhibited largely by Mr. Noble during the last spring, and have gained several certificates.  It will be at once seen that they differ very materially from the Woking seedlings, in the greater number of petals, and the greater delicacy of their colouring, not so rich perhaps, but equally beautiful.  We have selected four of the best for illustration.  Miss Bateman (fig. 1) is a flower of the most perfect whiteness; Mrs. Lister (fig. 2) differs from it in having a very pale rosy lilac tinge at the base of the petals; Lord Napier (fig. 3) is a very pale mauve-coloured flower, each petal being margined with rosy purple giving it a very distinct appearance; while Lady Londesborough (fig. 4) is of a very delicate lavender tint, each petal having down the centre a broad well-defined line of a lighter shade of the same colour; in each flower the stamens are mauve-coloured, and in the lighter varieties form a pleasing contrast to the petals.

(1866)  Page(s) pl. 311.  Includes photo(s).
 
Plates 310, 311.
CLEMATIS RUBELLA AND CLEMATIS LANUGINOSA CANDIDA.
....Clematis lanuginosa Candida is one of the best late-flowering whites, with a light purplish shading round the margin of each sepal; it is believed to be of Continental origin, and to have been introduced into the country about three years ago, and is considered by Messrs. Jackman and Son as a great acquisition to mix with their velvety maroon-coloured hybrids, as each variety commences to flower in July, and will continue to the end of October. We have seen another fine variety, called lanuginosa nivea. C. rubella and Prince of Wales were both awarded first-class certificates wherever exhibited.
 

(1861)  Page(s) Pl. 64.  Includes photo(s).
 
Plate 64 CELINE FORESTIER ROSE. Rosa (hybrida).
Though not comparable in its individual blossoms with some of the splendid Tea-scented or other fine varieties of the Rose now met with in gardens, yet on the ground of its decorative capabilities, and consequently its real usefulness, a first-rank position may be claimed for the variety, of which the accompanying figure is a portrait. We are indebted to Mr.S tandish, of Bagshot, for the specimens here figured, and for most of the following information respecting the variety.
Celine Forestier is a Noisette Rose, raised many years ago, it appears, at Angers in France, but only quite recently introduced to general cultivation. In its general appearance it much resembles an old variety named Triomphe de Rennes, which has been described as one of the best of the yellow Roses; but the present produces much better foliage, and is altogether a freer and more healthy-growing variety. The plant is of vigorous habit, and a rapid grower, making shoots of three feet and upwards in length, these strong shoots being, as in all the Noisette Roses, terminated by a cluster of flowers, which in this case are finely double, cupped, and of a bright yellow.The plants being also clothed with ample and beautiful foliage, have a very showy and ornamental character. The terminal clusters of blossoms, too, after having spent their beauties and their sweets, are succeeded by other flowers from the axils of the leaves below, one, two, or three blossoms being produced from each axil, so that the branches become converted into complete wreaths of Roses. In this way flowers are produced continuously through the season, till they are stayed by frost. 
This will be found to be decidedly the most useful of all the yellow Roses; indeed, for training against a wall, or over trellis-work, or around a pole or pillar, it is unsurpassed. It is moreover the hardiest of all the yellow Roses, which alone is no small recommendation.
The variety, we learn, strikes freely from cuttings; and,like free-growing Roses generally, will grow well in almost  any kind of rich soil,provided it is well drained. One of the finest situations that could be selected for its growth, would be a bank backed by sheltering shrubs, which would also serve as a relief to its flowers. Here, associated with some of the free-growing varieties with rich dark-coloured flowers, and all allowed to grow wild with their branches intertwined, the subject of our present illustration would form a brilliant figure in a picture of surpassing beauty.
Plate 64.—Rosa (hybrida) Celine Forestier: flowers cupped, in large terminal clusters, pale bright-yellow;h abit vigorous.

(1870)  Page(s) 494.  
 
We have bloomed several of the Tea Roses of this season, and although it is as yet too early to give a very decided opinion on their merits, we shall perhaps do good service in describing those that have already bloomed. Chamois is a rose of a very peculiar colour, justifying the name that has been given to it; but it is very small, and we fear there is not enough of it ever to make it a popular flower; in the bud it is charming, and it might very well be used as a "button-hole " rose...These are all the production of Monsieur Ducher...