"D.," of Deal, a well-known contributor to the London Journal of Horticulture, says the judges of roses at exhibitions are badly puzzled over the classes in which some of the roses should be ranked. He complains that people who simply guess at the parentage of their roses, announce the supposed origin in the same positive terms as if they knew the fact - and this leads to a suspicion of all statements. The raiser of La France, M. Guellot, sent it out as a hybrid perpetual, and afterwards himself classified it as a hybrid tea. Concerning Her Majesty he says:

"It was very finely exhibited by the raiser, it obtained the gold medal of the National Rose Society, and then retired from public gaze. The name itself was a taking one, and for a couple of years the constant question was: When would Her Majesty be let out? At last it was rumored that it had been bought in its entirety by an American nurseryman, and that it was not to be had in England; then afterwards we heard that a very eminent firm of rose growers in England had been appointed sole agents all this time. I am justified in saying that everyone's belief, although some were startled at the character of its growth, was, that it was a Hybrid Perpetual. When it was announced here it was as a Hybrid Perpetual, but the firm who sent it out gave its parentage - a hybrid between Canari and Mabel Morrison! I have no doubt the raiser thinks this is its parentage, but others will be equally certain that the hybridizations have been interfered with. The announcements by other growers gave it the character of a Hybrid Per-petual, but did not designate its parentage, and so it has come to be generally accepted that it is a Hybrid Perpetual".