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nut to crack in the closet rather than in the garden, and commending it to the 

 thoughtful consideration of our vegetable physiologists, I pass on. 



Aristicle Dupuis (H.P.) was one of the first to unfold its blossoms, the quality of which 

 is excellent ; the ground colour is slate, flamed with scarlet ; the flowers largo, full, of good 

 form, and produced in abundance. The habit is vigorous and good. 



Alice. Dureau (H.P.) is an exceedingly pretty rose, although of a common colour — clear 

 rose ; the flowers are large and full, of globular form ; the habit and constitution seem good 

 and vigorous. This rose was raised and sent out by Mr. Vigneron, of Olivet, near Orleans. 



Baron Ilaussmann (H.P.), which must not be confounded with Baronne Haussmann, is a 

 good rose ; the colour bright red, the flowers large, full, and of fine form. Tho growth is 

 vigorous. 



Boule de Neige (H.P.) is a little gem, for the flowers are hardly of average size, but they 

 are white, very pure, full, and finely formed ; with me it proves a free, hardy rose, flowering 

 abundantly and well, both in summer and autumn. 



Clotilde (Tea-scented) is good, rather too near in colour and goneral character to that fine 

 old tea-scented rose Bougere, but lighter in colour. Ono plant produced here twenty fine 

 blooms, variable in colour, rose, red, violet, and white mixing up without order or method; but 

 tho flowers were all of good size, opened freely, and wore finely shaped. 



Coquette des Alpes (H.P.) is also a pretty rose, white, shaded with carmine ; it is small) 

 but of good form. The growth is vigorous. 



Comte Eaimbaud(H..P.) was very beautiful, although perhaps it will scarcely satisfy those 

 who insist on a rose being quite full; the flowers are dark carmine-cerise, exceedingly 

 brilliant, of large size, and fine outline. It appears hardy, vigorous, and free. 



Cure' de Charentaij (H.P.) is a very largo dark purplo roso, of good form, and vigorous 

 growth. 



Duchesse d'Aoste (H.P.) is of a bright glossy rose colour ; a largo nicely cupped flower, 

 of a pretty bright colour, but becoming rather flat with ago. 



Elie Morel (H.P.) is especially valuable for its distinctness, but this is not its only claim 

 to recognition ; the flowers are of a delicate rosy lilac, with white edges, large and full, the 

 growth free. 



Francois Fontaine (H.P.) is a grand rose, large, full, and of good globular form, the 

 colours dark reddish purple, illumined with scarlet. The growth is vigorous. 



Imperatrice Charlotte (H.P.) bloomed well here, both in and out of doors. The flowers 

 are clear pale rose, often with bright centres, largo, full, and well shaped. It appears to be 

 1'roo and good. 



Jean Pernet (Toa-scented) was not so good here as I had seen it with the raiser in the 

 South of France tho year before ; still it is promising. The flowers are bright yellow, becoming 

 slightly paler, but very clear after expansion, large, full, and freely produced; growth, vigorous. 



La France (H.P.) is quite a new style of flower, and will, I believe, become very popular 

 as a garden rose. The shape of this rose is not at all regular, as the outer petals are often 

 fantastically twisted and curled. It is, however, good enough and great enough to stand with- 

 out conforming to the rules of conventional roso life. The flowers are bright lilac, with rosy 

 centres, often overlaid with a beautiful shade of silvery white. The petals and flowers are 

 large, and the plant, which is apparently of free growth, produces an abundance of flowers in 

 quick succession. 



Madame Chirard (H.P) is a beautiful bright rose-coloured flower of fine form, large, and 

 full, and in my judgment the best rose-coloured flower of the year, as I have hitherto seen it 

 better than " Alice Dureau." 



Madame la Baronne de Rothschild (H.P.) is a first-class novelty, as many will remember 

 who may have seen the plant and flowers exhibited by me at Kensington last spring. I saw 

 this rose with the raiser in the summer of last year, and marked it the best seedling of the 

 year ; it has bloomed freely hero since then, and quite supports that character. The flowers 

 are very large, almost full, of a beautiful pale pink or rose colour, shaded with white ; tho 

 habit is good, and the growth vigorous. 



Madame Marie Cirodde (H.P.) is another novelty of undoubted merit. The flowers are 

 pink, or rose, clear in colour, well imbricated, large, and full. The growth is vigorous. 



Madame Noman (H.P.) is a beautiful pure white rose, not large, but of exquisite form 

 and full. It blooms freely, too freely, indeed, for the plants here were exhausted by the 

 quantity of flowers produced. This and "Boule do Neige," two white roses sent out last 



