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suggested my searching the Flore des Serves et des Jardins de V Eu- 

 rope, published by that eminent cultivator ; and here I found a plate 

 of the Rose in question, much more in accordance "svith your cor- 

 respondent's description than the illustration in the Cabinet. Before, 

 however, making any public exposure of so apparently wilful a de- 

 ception, I waited the blossoming of my plants, when the latter illustra- 

 tion and your correspondent's description were entirely confirmed, and 

 the portrait in the Cabinet sho\vn to be a disgraceful misrepresentation ; 

 in proof of which I made tracings from each plate (see woodcuts), 



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which unmistakably exhibit the figure in the Cabinet to have been 

 a mere copy of the other plate, but most gratuitously making the 

 blossom appear a full double flower, when in reality it is only a semi- 

 double variety. A mere artistic error no reasonable person would 

 think of making strife about; but when so unblushing a deviation 

 from truthfulness as this occurs, it seems to me to be a duty we owe 

 to one another, in order to guard our brethren from being misled, to 

 expose the deception as much as possible. 



An Amateur Cultivator. 



NEW SERIES, VOL. IV. NO. XL. 



