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without a recommendation of some kind. Of course I had a great 

 many beautiful sorts, but I found that man)^ were of middlini^ quality, 

 and others were so much alike as to be scarcely distinguishable, while 

 in about fifty or sixty sorts defects were so glaring that they were 

 discarded after the first flowering. Since then new varieties have 

 been added ; but as I consider it far better to have several of a first- 

 rate sort than a great number of \'arieties, many of them of an inferior 

 kind, my new manuscript catalogue contains only 150 sorts, which 

 alone will be propagated with ten or twelve new Hoses " on trial," 

 which will be inserted or rejected as they prove first-rate or otherwise. 

 The following are kinds to avoid, at least I shall avoid them : 



Provence. Curled, Sylvain, Unique, Petite Mignonne. 



Moss. Aixa, Comtesse de Murinais, French Crimson, De Metz, 

 Etna, Grandiflora, Luxembourg, Malvina, Pomponfeu, Princesse 

 Adelaide, Renoncule Pourpre, De Vieillard, Unique, Sage-leaved. 



French. Celestine, Columelle, Cambronne, Due de Trevise, 

 Eblouissante de Laqueue, Enchantresse, Feu Brillante, General 

 Damremont, Guerin's Gift, La Calaissienne, La Jeune Heine, Latour 

 d'Auvergne, Matthieu Mole, Oracle du Siecle, Pharericus, Pierre 

 Jaussens, Triomphe de Jaussens, Village Maid, Village Maid (new), 

 Wellington, Aglae Adanson, Nelly, Hien ne me surpasse, Tricolor. 



Alba. Due de Luxembourg, Fanny Sommerson. 



Damask. Arlinde, Bachelier, Calypso, La Cherie, Leda, Pope. 



Hybrid Provence. Aspasie, Duchesse d'Orleans, La Ville de 

 Londres, Madame L' Abbey, Mrs. Rivers. 



Hybrid China. Beaute Vive, Brennus, Fulgens, Hippocrates, 

 Jenny, Petit Pierre, Triomphe d' Angers, Velours Episcopal, Hiego. 



Hybrid Bourbon. Belle de St. Cyr, Edouard Delair, Eliza Mer- 

 cceur, Great Western, Hortense Leroy, Hichelieu (Duval), Celena 

 plena. Las Casas. 



Climbing. Bennett's Seedling, Dundee Hambler, Huga, Splen- 

 dens, Amadis, Hampant, Queen of the Prairies. 



Damask Perpetual. Antinous, Laurence de Montmorency. 



Hybrid Perpetual. Aubernon, Bouton de Flore, Commandant 

 Fournier, Comte d'Egmont, Comte d'Eu, Comte de Montalivet, 

 Comte de Paris, Cornet, Dr. Marx, Earl Talbot, Edouard Jessy, 

 Lane, Louis Bonaparte, Madame Dameme, Marquise Boccella, Mrs. 

 Elliot, Princesse Helene, Psyche. 



Bourbon. Alfred, Amenaide, Crimson Glebe, Dr. Blandin, Due 

 de Chartres, Gloire de Paris, Grand Capitaine, Imperatrice Josephine, 

 Lady Canning, Lavinie d'Ost, Leveson Gower, Madame Aude, 

 Madame Lacharme, Miss Fanny, Princesse Clementine, Princesse 

 de Modena, Heine des Vierges, Theresita, Vicomte de Cussy. 



China. Abbe Mioland, Beau Carmin, Belle Emilie, Fabvier, 

 Henry V., Marjolin du Luxembourg, Meillcz, Napoleon, Tancrede. 



Tea. Abricote, Bardon, CaroHne, Clara Sylvain, Hardy, Man- 

 sais, Marie de Medicis, Nina, Princesse Helene. 



Noisette. Clara Wendel, Du Luxembourg, Fellenberg, La 

 Biche, Pourpre de Tyre, Solfaterre, Victorieuse. 



It may be imagined by some that beauty in flowers is a mere 



