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most good roses, it has more than one name. 

 Rose du Roi a fleiirs pourpres is its legitimate 

 appellation. A cultivator in France, un pen 

 charlatan, named it jNIogador, soon after the 

 French victory over the Moors. It has proved, 

 indeed, a superb rose ; colom-, brilliant crimson, 

 slightly shaded with purple : shape, cupped and 

 elegant : its flowers are, perhaps, a little more 

 double than those of its parent ; and its habit is 

 more robust. Laurence de Montmorency is a 

 good rose; flowers, very large, cupped, finely 

 shaped, and very double ; colour, deep rosy pink, 

 tinted with lilac. I observe that its foliage has 

 lost the downy appearance of the Damask rose ; 

 thus showing its departure from the habits of 

 this family ; another remove, and it would have 

 been placed with justice among the Hybrid Per- 

 petuals. Madame Thelier is a delicate and pretty 

 rose ; colom-, pink ; flowers, middle-sized ; habit, 

 rather delicate. 



Celina Dubos, a white, or nearly white, rose of 

 this group, is really worthy of attention, both from 

 its origin and quality. It is said to have been 

 originated from a sporting branch of the Crimson 

 Perpetual ; its flowers are well shaped, very 

 durable, and highly fragrant. 



Culture and Pruning, 



As the culture of this class of roses is at pre- 

 sent but imperfectly understood, I shall give the 



