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as thick and large, and its habits as robust as 

 those of the above well-known Bourbon Rose, 

 and as it opens freely in our climate it is highly 

 popular.* 



Souvenir d'Elise Vardon is a creamy white 

 rose, tinted with rose, and a good variety always 

 beautiful. 



But very few distinct roses of this class have 

 been recently introduced, although many 7ieiu 

 varieties have. Due de Magenta, and the Presi- 

 dent, are, however, good kinds, with veiy large 

 rose-coloured flowers, tinted with fawn. Madame 

 Falcot, like Safrano, biit deeper in its beautiful 

 fawn-colour, and giving flowers more double, 

 is a charming variety. Comtesse Ouvaroff and 

 Triomphe de Gruillot, the former rose-coloured, 

 the latter pale flesh, nearly white, shaded with 

 rose and salmon, are fine and distinct roses, 

 remarkably fragrant. 



After waiting many years, we have at last a 

 new pure yellow rose of this family not likely to 

 be surpassed, still one feels that we must not rest 

 till a fragrant yellow rose of this group is raised 

 equal in intensity of colour and in perfection of 

 shape to the Double Yellow Rose (Rosa sulfurea), 

 which may be seen in such abundance in the 

 markets of Florence in May. 



The rose to which I allude is ^larshal Xiel, 



* I have very recently learned that it succeeds perfectly iu 

 he north, and that near Abenleen it has bloomed beautifully. 



