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hMtj and eontumanee. Bacchus, too shy to be tmsted. La Valhige, 

 poor and pimping. I^ Ro'yal EpouXj shy. Z,om» Chair., sky. Madame 

 Le^adide, shy. Madlh. Alice Leroy, a capital rose for free bloom, and 

 pretty, but poor in qnality, and being of the pure roae-colonr claas, 

 may be rejected, because in that class we have plenty of better flowers, 

 MadUe. Auguste, very shy, MadJle. Loui-i Carique, tolerably good, 

 but not worth perpetuating, Maxime, shy. Virginal, thin and shy. 

 GeneralJaqueminot, the hybrid China of this name is a free bloom- 

 ing purpLLsh-red rose, of no value whaterer. William Lohh, once popular 

 as the '• blue moas rose," is a rampant grower, and, when cist, rery bexnti- 

 ftil, but has no beauty in the rosery, and one or two specimens are snfBeient 

 for the largest coileetion. Of Xoisettes strike out as worthless the follow- 

 ing: — Claudia August in. Cornel ie, Caroline Marnie^se, and Triomphe 

 J» Ifuehere. This wUl, we hope, suffice for the present. "We are a£raid 

 fkub black list will have to be largely increased. Bat as this is the time 

 to prop^tgate roses, we will add one more list of 



The Most Perfect Eoses, 2^£w ajtd Qto. — H. P., lighi : Alexandrine 

 £elfiroy, peach; Baronne Prevost, pale rose; Anna Alexieff, pale rose — 

 when disbudded and grown strong, exquisitely formed, when allowed to 

 open all its buds, one of the most profuse bloomers known ; Belle de Bonxg 

 la Seine, satiny rose ; Caroline de Sansal, clear flesh ; Duchess de Ma- 

 genta, flesh, changing to white ; Duchess of Sutherland, pale rose ; La 

 Seine, rosy pink ; Lselia, shaded rose ; Louise Darzins, white; Louise 

 Peyronny, silvery rose; Madame Hector Jacqnin, lose-shaded lilac; 

 Madame Knorr, pale rose deepening towards the centre to clear lake, ex- 

 quisitely cupped, one of the loveliest roses known; Madame Eivers, elear 

 flesh ; Madaoie Yidot, flesh, perfect in form ; Madlle. Bonnaire, white or 

 pale rose ; Queen Victoria (Paul's), white, shaded with peach ; William. 

 Griffith. Bourhmts, light : Acidalie, blush ; Comtesse de Barbantanne, 

 fles^ ; Qoeen, buff rose, exquisite form, and very free ; Souvenir de Mal- 

 maison, flesh, better under glass than in open air, but anywhere one of the 

 grandc-st roses ; Alphonse Karr, rose, small, beaatifiEil, free. H. P., red and 

 erims&n : Adolphe ^SToblet, brilliant red ; Alphonse Damaizin, blight red ; 

 Beauty of Waltham, rocsy crimson ; Charles Lefevre, bright crimson ; Comte 

 de ]N^anteuiJ, bright, rose with darker edges ; Crimson Peipetnal ; Due de 

 Sohan, red, shaded with rermilion; Duke of Cambridge, dark red ; !Bofimt 

 de Mont Carmel, crimson ; Eugene Apperl^ velvety crimson, bad centre wbea 

 ^jTown poor, but superb when treated generously ; Francois Lachanne^ car- 

 mine ; General Jacqueminot, requires liberal culture and didradding to 

 obtain the best flowers, bat, with all its tsxdtSf indispensable ; Lord Maeaa- 

 1^, like the General, and better ; General Washmgton, rosy zed ; Jules 

 Ibzgottin, cheny red, a perfect rose ; La Yille de St. Bema, rosy carmine ; 

 Madame C. Caprelet, red, veined widi lilac ; Madame de Gamb^eres, rosy 

 carmine, has a bad centre unless grown strong ; Madame Domage, bright roae 

 colour, a grand rose, and whrai disbudded, one of the largest, when grown 

 for show, the top bod of each shoot only should be left to expand ; Madame 

 Furtado, rosy crimson ; Madame Laffiy, rosy crimson ; MadUe. Betsy Hal- 

 man, carmine shaded cerise, most el^antly cupped; Ornament desJardina^ 

 crimson; Prince Leon, crimson ; Bavel, crimson; SenateurYaisse, bright red; 

 Triomphe de TExpoddon, reddish crimson ; Yainqueor de Solferino, daA. 

 red ; Victor Yerdier, ro^ carmine ; WilUam. Jese, crimson, tinged villi 

 lilac ; Lord Palmeraton, cherry red, exqmsite when well grown. .BjnwSwi, 



