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waxy blush or fawn color; tliis new variety is as 

 perfect as any of the family, and will be a great 

 favorite. Madame Souchet^ rosy pink, frequently 

 edged with crimson, large flower, fine bold petals, 

 fragrant ; plant of medium growth, altogether very 

 like Cesarine Soucltet^ but more fragrant. Jfanteau 

 de Jeanne d'Arc ; this and Heine du Congres have a 

 great resemblance to each other in color, though 

 difi'erent in habit ; both waxy-pale blush ; and 

 though described as " tinted with rose," all blush 

 roses become tmted after beins^ full blown. Mrs. 

 Bosanquet^ as intimated in our first edition, has 

 been placed among the Bourbons ; it is one of the 

 most popular of roses ; full cup form, large, pale- 

 blush flowers, growing freely ; a plant in this vi- 

 cinity is twenty-five feet high and fifteen wide. 

 Madame Xeumann^ Le Brun, Gloire de France^ or 

 the Monthly Cabhage^ appear to be one and the 

 same rose. I have repeatedly gone from plant to 

 plant, and compared flower with flower, but could 

 come to no other conclusion ; when Le Brun ap- 

 peared with so fine a character, about ten years 

 ago, I tried to persuade myself it was a new rose, 

 but in vain ; if they are not one and the same, 

 they are at least perfectly similar, producing fine 

 large, deep, rose-colored flowers of exquisite fra- 

 grance, but do not open well in the early part of 



