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great favorite and has few compeers. Every one 

 admires it ; the color is also scarce in the family, 

 being pale blush shading to bright pink towards 

 the centre. It is extremely double, and is greatly 

 to be admired for its symmetry ; it is a free 

 bloomer. Gloire des Jardins is a large bright red, 

 fully imbricated, and always perfectly double. 

 Ilortense Becmharnais, though described as Bose vif 

 Ponduee, is not Avorthj^ of that distinction ; these 

 faint spots seen in it after close inspection, are too 

 faint to be deserving of notice. Hercules, if it had 

 not another quality besides its delicious fragrance, 

 should be in every garden. Its flowers are large, 

 and bright red, expanding freely and fully double. 

 Isabel and Prolifire are the same : very double 

 pink, in clusters and in great profusion; one mass 

 of pretty pink flowers. Juliana is also a pretty 

 perfectly double pinkish red, one of those colors 

 that the eye delights to rest upon. King of Rome, 

 Ponceau Parfait, and Theodore de Crose ; this very 

 fine and perfect rose, like many others of first 

 quality, has a plurality of names; and if it should 

 have as many more, they will not darken its 

 bright red color, nor disarrange its very perfect 

 form. La Favorite is a bright cherry red, of good 

 habit. La Negresse, not so black as its name im- 

 plies, only a very superb double crimson, very 

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