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enough to please me, though highly beautiful and thick in petal. I 

 have not included Simpson and Place in their class of colours, because 

 they are not large enough to put with huge Poses : they are perfect in 

 form, and bloom beautifully here on Manetti only. Dark Roses, or 

 radiant and dark ; all are on Briers except Willermoz, and all are small 

 or medium sized, but very beautiful : Patrizzi, Arthur de Sansal, Noir, 

 Moskowa (the largest but hollow), Napoleon : they are useful for 

 showing in large collections. 



With regard to Bourbons, I will observe two or three things. 

 They are best on low stocks, and better fall than summer bloomers. 

 The dark and purpureous Roses, such as Reveil, Paul Joseph, Montijo, 

 Proserpine, Dupetit Thouars, have bloomed here well all summer, 

 close under a north wall. Paul Joseph and Proserpine are old on their 

 own roots, and bloom continually ; they are first-class medium-sized 

 Roses of great substance and good form. The first, I think, is the 

 best of all dark Roses. Leprestre, brilliant, is not equal in habit to 

 Dupetit Thouars; Reveil is the most superb; Montijo is lovely, and 

 thicker than any Rose in petal ; Louise Odier, Paxton, Lecoq, Acidalie, 

 Vicomte de Cussy, are good free bloomers, early in summer, in 

 scorching situations. None are equal in size to the above Hybrid 

 Perpetuals, except Malmaison, blush, which is the finest of all, and 

 good. 



China : Mrs. Bosanquet, wax-like flesh, a good and useful Rose. 

 Teas : Gloire de Dijon, orange and buff, is good on both stocks every- 

 where, and at all times ; Devoniensis, good on Manetti, but better here 

 old on her own roots. Noisettes : Cloth of Gold and Isabella Gray are 

 best if you can grow them : mine look like Italian greyhounds on the 

 rocks of Labrador, and have gone blind : Solfaterre and Lamarque are 

 easier managed and beautiful : Triomphe de Rennes, a smaller and 

 more perfect Dijon, orange and canary or buff, is really a gem. 



New Roses : Beaux Arts is a large dark Rose, free bloomer, of a 

 plum purple colour ; its habit is apparently not equal to the size of its 

 flowers ; perhaps, on stronger stocks, it may be more likely to bear such 

 large and abundant blooms. Marie Portemer, red, is good habited, 

 and excellent : I hope she will supplant those tender Roses Chipetouzikof 

 and Madame Masson. Reine de Denmark, blush, is the finest I have 

 yet bloomed of the novelties : she is splendid. Gloire de Lyons is a great 

 favourite, fiery centre, and plum purple, excellent in habit These 

 three, and the two Bourbons, Monsieur Jard and Dr. Berthet, a rich 

 crimson, are all that I have seen sufficient of to bear the responsibility 

 of recommending. The others have been making nice little bushes, 

 and doubtless will, one day, give me as great pleasure as the above have 

 done. If any of the numerous novelties not yet bloomed should do well, 

 as far as I am concerned, the public shall not be kept in the dark. 



All of the above Roses, summer and autumnal, if highly manured 

 and supplied with water, will give you great satisfaction. I have left 

 out some beautiful Roses, either because I have not sufficiently proved 

 them, or because they are weather Roses, and are only occasionally 

 good, or because they are dwarf habited. With the exception of summer 

 Roses, Roses do better here, on the whole, on Manetti stocks. It is fair, 



