VARIETIES DESCRIBED. 107 



I liave enumerated. It is by cultivating such 

 free-growing roses as pyramids (see p. 114) that 

 their full beauty is brought out. 



Carmine. 



The roses of this range of colour are, perhaps, 

 the most chaste and pleasing of all, as their 

 flowers are, for the most part, so elegantly shaped. 

 Prince Leon is a gem, and is remarkable for its 

 vigorous habits and fine foliage. To this now 

 old variety we may add Jules Margottin, which, 

 taking it all in all — its fine colour, shape, fra- 

 grance, robust habit, and freedom of flowering 

 during the whole summer and autumn — may be 

 pronounced the finest rose known. How grand 

 are its early flowers, the personification of our 

 old cabbage-rose, with a perfume quite equal, 

 and a bright rosy pink colour far more interest- 

 ing ! 



The following kinds will be found perfect and 

 beautiful : — Madame Alice Dureau, Mademoiselle 

 Marie Eady, Marquise de Castellane, Paul Neron, 

 Ville de Lyon. Charles ^Nlargottin, Beauty of 

 Waltham, Francois Michelon, John Hopper, Ma- 

 dame Victor Verdier, Madame Boutin, Duchesse 

 de Caylus, and Victor Verdier are the ' creme de 

 la creme ' of this group, and no roses can be more 

 charming ; they all, or nearly all, have an inten- 



