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red, and v.diite ; is of a fine globular form, and is 

 one of the best of the group. (Eillet jio.mand is 

 its counterpart, requiring a very critical eye to 

 distinguish them apart. Perle des 'panacMes^ white 

 striped faintly with violet and lilac. Pourpre Striee 

 de Blanc is a light purple, with numerous small 

 stripes of white; flowers fully double. Renoncule 

 Ponduee is very double, beautifully spotted and 

 marbled with rose, crimson, and white ; nothing in 

 the division like it. Trtcolor Superha is a double 

 crimson, y/ith large petals, shaded and marked 

 with rose and white. Panachee Douhle^ Village 

 Maid^ or Bell Ruhine^ was the first of the fine 

 double striped roses, and has been cultivated and 

 sold under these three names ; the flowers are per- 

 fectly double, and very like a fine Bizarre Carna- 

 tion, having stripes of deep rose, pink, and white, 

 regularly over the petals, from the base to the 

 apex.^ 



There are few, indeed, of the striped and spotted 

 roses deserving the great eulogiums and extra- 

 vagant descriptions given them by growers and 

 writers. The new sorts have added little to redeem 



* This rose, like all of the striped and spotted sorts, reverts 

 back to self-colors. I have whole plants of it of a rosy lilac 

 color. 



