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may generally be recognised by a close observer. 

 The common and its varieties make strong green 

 luxuriant shoots, with flowers varying in colour 

 from pure white to deep red. The Crimson also 

 takes a wide range ; for though its original colour 

 is crimson, yet I have reason to believe that the 

 pure white, which was raised in Essex, came from 

 its seed. There are but few of these roses now 

 cultivated, owing to their want of fragrance, the 

 Hybrid Perpetuals having superseded them ; still 

 they are beautiful roses for small beds, and we 

 have not even now any rose more beautiful than 

 Cramoisie Superieur ; its flowers are so finely 

 formed, and its crimson tints so rich. Anothei 

 member of this semperflorens group is Eugene 

 Beauharnais ; its colour amaranth, and its flowers 

 large and double. Fabvier, with semi-double 

 scarlet flowers, exhausts our catalogue of the most 

 worthy of these crimson semperflorens roses. 

 Clara Sylvain is a pure pearly white rose, which 

 forms an admirable contrast to those first described. 

 For blush roses we have the yet unrivalled Mrs. 

 Bosanquet. Archduke Charles is the best of those 

 roses that, when they open, are rose-coloured, and 

 yet, in a day or two, if the weather be warm and 

 dry, change to dark crimson. I have seen them 

 in France nearly black. Madame Breon is a fine 

 large rose, with brilliant rose-coloured flowers, 

 well worthy of cultivation ; and in these few 

 lines we have exhausted our China Eoses, which, 

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