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Ohl, Shakspeare, Gloire de Colmar, d'Aguesseau, Napoleon, Schon- 

 brun, Triomphe de Coster, and Triomphe de Jaussens, with their 

 crimson and red and scarlet tints ; how thick and velvety are their 

 petals, and how perfect and double are their flowers ! Some of the 

 rose-coloured varieties in this group, such as Columella, Guerin's 

 Gift, La Circassienne, Letitia, Pharericus, and Sanchette, have been 

 equally beautiful. We can scarcely afford to give up these Roses 

 only because they are summer flowers ; let me, therefore, suggest 

 a mode of culture, so that their barren appearance in autumn may 

 be partially hidden ; for it must be confessed a bed of them after July 

 is not an agreeable object in the Rose-garden ; will it not, there- 

 fore, be advisable to plant them with hybrid Perpetuals in the pro- 

 portion of about one-third or one-fourth ? Thus, a bed of twenty- 

 one dwarfs may have seven Gallicas, or hybrid Provence, or Alba, 

 or Damask, to fourteen hybrid Perpetuals ; or if one-fourth, a bed of 

 twenty may have five of these summer Roses ; they will, in June and 

 July, give a beautiful variety of colour, and in autumn their barren 

 appearance will not be perceptible amid their gay and bountiful 

 sisterhood, the hybrid Perpetuals : we owe these old friends a debt 

 of gratitude, let us not discard them too hastily. 



July 25th. — To return to autumnal Roses : the Standard of 

 Marengo, apparently acclimatised by this summer weather, — re- 

 minding it, I presume, of its birth-place, Lyons — improves on ac- 

 quaintance ; it is nearly as brilliant as the Geant, and how beauti- 

 fully cupped ! 



July 30th. — The hybrid Perpetual Cornice de Marseilles is on 

 bloom, — very pretty, very good, of a delicate blush, and nicely cupped. 

 Better, and more distinct, is Madame Guillot ; really a fine new Rose, 

 of a deep pink, large, cupped, very double, and nicely shaped. 



August 2d. — How very splendid is Comte de Montalivet! as 

 large, or sometimes larger, than William Jesse ; of a colour perfectly 

 unique, and scarcely to be described, so rich are its red and purple 

 tints ! Although this Rose gives such large flowers, it is not a robust 

 grower, and is liable to mildew : it may be budded on some strong- 

 growing hybrid China Rose with advantage. 



Aug. 5th. — How r striking and distinct is Henry IV. (Henri Quatre) ! 

 With all the vigour of a hybrid Bourbon, such as Charles Duval, 

 it unites the desirable quality of blooming in autumn, making shoots 

 three to four feet in length, crowned with clusters of flowers of a 

 lively deep pink : these are not large, but nicely cupped and very 

 double ; its foliage is remarkably beautiful. 



Aug. \Qth. — Jeanne d'Arc is certainly the nearest approaching 

 to white of all the hybrid Perpetuals, and is a very pretty, cupped, and 

 elegantly shaped Rose, of the most delicate flesh-colour. Dr. Arnal, 

 also a new variety of this family, is very brilliant, very double, and 

 pretty ; but not very distinct in colour, which is brighter, but still 

 resembles that of our old favourite, Madame LafTay, — certainly one of 

 the very best autumnal Roses known. 



Aug. \2th. — General Negrier, one of the lions of the season, is 

 now in full beauty. No Rose can be imagined more perfect in shape 



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