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o^ Bishop. Champion lias very bright red flowers, 

 full and perfect, blooming most freely. Carmin 

 Brilliant is well and expressively named. It 

 would facilitate the love of flowers to a great 

 degree if their names were always expressive of 

 color or character ; but the title is often all the 

 quality the article can boast of. Chardon Bleu^ 

 or, in other words, Blue Thistle ; such a name for 

 a dark slaty shaded crimson rose, is preposterous; 

 yet so it is. Buffon^ very dark violet crimson, 

 large and fine. Coronation is very brilliant, nearly 

 approaching scarlet ; it has bold full petals, is a 

 profuse bloomer, and perfectly formed. Due de 

 Choiseul is a very distinct article, flowers freely, 

 double. It is well formed, of a pale rose color, 

 with a deep carmine centre. Elemensie is another 

 very distinct variety, with large expanded flowers 

 of a rosy crimson color, growing and blooming 

 freely. Eliza is a large blush, finely cupped, and 

 a late bloomer. Eliza Lehcer is a beautiful pale 

 rose, frequently a little marbled, but so very in- 

 distinctly that it must have been fancy in him 

 who described it as such. Edat des Roses ; there 

 are several roses cultivated under this loud name ; 

 the one before us is a large bright rose, edged with 

 blush, with bold and perfect petals, and always 

 very double. Fanny Bias, or Fanny Parissot, is a 



