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the most brilliant is the well-known Geant des 

 Batailles, now old and almost forgotten, the most 

 bright and brilliant of all roses, and at the same 

 time one of the most hardy and free-growing. 

 No rose, of late years, has been so popular. As 

 an instance of this I may mention that, in the 

 autumn of 1849, 8000 standards and dwarfs of 

 this variety were dispersed over the whole face of 

 the country from this place. 



This beautiful and favourite rose is the parent 

 of a numerous family, every member of which, 

 when first ushered into the rose world, has 

 been pronounced more beautiful than its far- 

 famed parent; after a time, however, most of 

 these promising children have settled down into 

 esteemed members of the Greant family, but have 

 not totally eclipsed their parent. 



In enumerating the fine roses of this range 

 of colour, one is almost bewildered, so numerous 

 are they. It would seem, when one sees a fine 

 flower of Senateur Vaisse just on the point of ex- 

 panding, that no rose, or indeed no flower, can 

 be more brilliant, more beautiful ; yet I have 

 sometimes bent over Grloire de Santenay, and 

 thought it still more so : the flowers of both are 

 so perfect in shape, so brilliant, and so exceed- 

 ingly beautiful, Charles Lefebvre, Francois 

 Lacharme, Alphonse Damaizin, Due de Kohan, 

 Maurice Bernardin, Professor Koch, Madame 

 Julie Daran, Olivier Delhomme, Alfred Colomb, 



