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very desirable variety. La Biche is still a good 

 rose wlien first open, of a pale blusti color, though, 

 almost instantly changing to pure white; rather 

 large and double ; it is an excellent pillar rose, of 

 free growth, and is frequently sold for Lamarque. 

 Lactans^ as its name implies, is a milky white, so 

 pure that I do not remember having seen any rose 

 of so delicate a white. I received it a few years 

 ago as a Tea, but it now ranks among the Xoisette, 

 and with the dwarf varieties. Its flowers, which 

 it produces very freely, are very large and ex- 

 tremely double. La Nymiilie^ a beautiful blush 

 pink, quite double, a profuse bloomer, of medium 

 growth. Lamarque ; this is a celebrated variety, 

 now known over the whole country for its magni- 

 ficent, large, perfectly double, yellowish- white, 

 pendulous flowers, which it produces in clusters 

 of three to ten in each. In good dry rich soils it 

 will grow twent}^ feet in a season, and one of my 

 correspondents in South Carolina informs me, that 

 their plant, now eight years old, covers a veranda 

 fifty feet long and twenty feet high, and is one 

 mass of flowers from May to December. There 

 is also a plant in this city, that occupies twenty 

 feet by eight of a fence that faces north, where it 

 is influenced by the morning and evening sun ; 

 but the sun from November to March, never 



