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laughed till she made the whole room shake again." I do not mean 

 that these Perpetual Damasks are too robust and ruddy, but that they 

 charm us no more as when Mr Lee of Hammersmith introduced Rose 

 du Roi to a delighted public, and the Comte, who presided over the 

 gardens in which the Rose was raised at St Cloud, resigned his office 

 in disgust because the flower was not named after himself, Lelieur. 

 A most ungracious act, seeing that it was by the King's (Louis XYIII.) 

 desire that the Rose had its royal title, and that the honour of origin- 

 ating the variety was due (no uncommon case) to Suchet the foreman, 

 and not to Lelieur, the chef. Mogador, which was subsequently raised 

 from Rose du Roi, was a decided improvement, and is still very effec- 

 tive in a bed, from its vivid crimson tints ; but very few of those 

 amateurs, who may pay me the compliment of furnishing their 

 rosaries with the varieties which I commend the most, will, I think, 

 have room, when I have completed my catalogue, for the Damask 

 Perpetual Rose. 



It can vie no more with that section, the most perfect and extensive 

 of all, which we will next consider, so far as its garden Roses are 

 concerned — viz., the Hybrid Perpetual. Two of our most fastidious 

 rosarians, ejecting from a select list every flower which has not some 

 special excellence, give us the names of 120 varieties as being sans 

 reproche. " I have inserted in this Kst," says Mr Rivers, " Roses only, 

 whether new or old, that are distinct, good, and, above all, free and 

 healthy in their growth ; the flowers are all of full size, fine shape, and 

 perfection in colour; in short, any variety selected from it even at random 

 will prove good and well worthy of cultivation." " Roses suitable for 

 Exhibition" is the heading of Mr George Paul's list ; and no exhibitor 

 has proved so oft or so convincingly a knowledge of what to show, 

 and how to show it. But I am anticipating this part of my subject, 

 and, returning to our garden Roses, recommend the following selection : 

 Anna Alexieff, Auguste Mie, Baronne Prevost, Caroline de Sansales, 

 Duchesse de Cambaceres, Duchess of Norfolk, Duchess of Sutherland, 

 Eugene Appert, General Jacqueminot, Oriflamme de St Louis, Souve- 

 nir de la Reine d'Angleterre, and Triomphe de I'Exposition, which 

 have been already described as Pillar Roses (p. 147-49), and are equally 

 praiseworthy upon the standard or the bush. Of these Baronne Prev- 

 ost and General Jacqueminot make magnificent beds upon their own 

 roots, and so does Geant des Batailles, who, though no longer, as I 

 remember him, commander-in-chief, is still a handsome and efficient 

 aide-de-camp. To these I must add Alphonse Damaizin, a rich deep- 

 crimson Rose ; Charles Margottin, bright carmine, all hut an exhibition 

 Rose ; Anna de Diesbach, one of our largest, loveliest Roses, quite a 

 necessity in every garden, and generally included among show Roses, 



