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as sweet and even larger than the Cabbage Rose, and blooming till 

 November ! What would our grandfathers say, could they see 

 it ! It is quite delightful to find that our glorious Geant is so 

 earlv in coming into bloom. What a peculiar fruity fragrance it 

 has ! and then, what colour ! It should have been named Etna, or 

 Vesuvius, or Firebrand, or some such fiery name ; for who ever saw 

 any thing amons: flowers so glowing, so live-coal-like ? It will, I 

 think, be found to grow better budded on some strong- growing 

 varieties of the hybrid China Roses than on the Dog-Rose. Here it 

 succeeds admirably on the Rosa Manetti, a hybrid China Rose sent 

 to me many years ago from the banks of the Lago de Como by a 

 friend, who stated that in Italy it was far superior to the Dog-Rose 

 as a stock, and would probably suit our dry soils. His anticipation 

 is fully borne out. 



June l'2th. — The hybrid Perpetual Rose Cymedor in fine bloom. 

 This Rose is, however, not so beautiful in the summer as in autumn. 

 Its colour, like that of the common ten-week Stock, has a charming 

 cloudy tint, like a silvery cloud on a summer's sky, which is very 

 evanescent. When its flowers are half expanded, and this tint is 

 upon them, they are really delightful. Soleil d'Austerlitz, almost as 

 brilliant, but of a different shade of crimson to the Geant, is now 

 in full beauty. Commandant Fournier, another of these brilliant 

 light-crimson new autumnal R.oses, is equally worthy of note. 



June 19th. — What a beautiful and perfect double Rose is Reine 

 des Fleurs ! In this we have no novelty in colour, which is rose, 

 rather light than otherwise, but very beautiful ; and in the same 

 category as to perfection in shape, with a slight variation in their 

 rosy tints, are Duchesse de Galliera and Duchesse de Montpensier — 

 all most beautiful Roses, of vigorous, yet rather dwarf and compact 

 growth, forming charming bushes. How nice it is to have Rose- 

 bushes bearing fragrant flowers from June till November ! 



June 22d. — Comtesse de Rarabuteau is to-day in great beauty. 

 A figure of tins Rose was given in The Florist, No. V. It is now 

 exactly like it ; but last season it did not at all come up to its cha- 

 racter as there siven. It has a great fault in being a delicate grower ; 

 so that other varieties of equal beauty, but of more robust habits, 

 may be planted with advantage. 



June '24th. — The new Rose, Madame Trudeaux, has for the first 

 time opened her beautiful flowers of brilliant light crimson, beauti- 

 fully shaped, and very double. 



June 25th. — L" Inflexible, one of the most full and beautifully 

 shaped of Roses, but tardy in unfolding its beauties, owing to its 

 extreme doubleness, is to-day finely in bloom, — in colour, if my 

 memory serves me well in comparing it, like the peach-blossom. A 

 warm dry climate will probably suit this Rose ; for the north it will 

 not, I think, be suitable. 



June 2hth. — I must now leave these justly esteemed Roses, the 

 hybrid Perpetuals, and give some other favourites a passing notice. 

 The standard climbing Roses of the Sempervirens family are just in 

 full beauty ; two trees of Myrianthes, about six years old, are co- 

 vered with myriads of their beautiful pale rose-coloured flowers ; their 



