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pleasing. Comtesse de Barbantane is of this 

 delicate colour : but the rose of this group is 

 Souvenir de la Malmaison, now an old variety, 

 but as yet unrivalled in its noble flowers, so deli- 

 cate in colour and so truly beautiful. 



White and Fawn-coloured. 



Only one really good White Bourbon Eose 

 exists at present, an old favourite, and deservedly 

 so, Acidalie. Who that has seen this beautiful 

 rose in fine calna weather in September, has been 

 able to withhold intense admiration ? Its large 

 globular, finely-shaped flowers of the purest white, 

 delicately tinted with purplish rose, seem always 

 to be drooping with beauty. It is indeed unique 

 and charming. The Queen of the Bourbons, 

 with rosy, fawn-coloured flowers, is also quite 

 distinct in its colouring, and well worthy of 

 cultivation. 



There are a few Bourbon Eoses, of remarkably 

 vigorous habits, scarcely adapted for planting in 

 beds, as are all those above described, — such are 

 Louise Odier, almost equal to Coupe d'Hebe in 

 the shape of its bright rose-coloured flowers; 

 and Souvenir de la Malmaison, are vigorous- 

 growing roses, and amongst the finest for pillar 

 roses. They will require the treatment recom- 

 mended for summer pillar roses in p. 37. For 

 light soils, these Bourbon pillar roses should be 



