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dark roses which so excite and please our 
senses by their charms and loveliness. This 
family probably originated from the old hy- 
brid China, Gloire des Rosomanes; they are 
moderately hardy, but less so than those of 
the Baronne Prévost, Jules Margottin, and 
La Reine types. The flowers are invariably 
shades of red and crimson, generally highly 
perfumed, freely produced in the spring, but 
varying greatly as to their autumnal bloom. 
Asa family, they are much more shy in the 
autumn than any of the others. It is now 
the most numerous of the families, due to 
the fact that popular taste inclines more to 
crimson than to light-coloredroses. Leading 
varieties of this type are Beauty of Waltham, 
Marie Baumann (moderate growth), Marie 
Rady, Maurice Bernardin, Pierre Notting, 
Xavier Olibo (dwarf growth), also Sénateur 
Vaisse, Charles Lefebvre, Prince Camille, 
Alfred Colomb, and Duke of Edinburgh. 
About the latter varieties cluster numerous 
others of the family of less importance. 
The head of the Victor Verdier type origi- 
nated with the greatest of all the raisers, 
Lacharme, of Lyons, and was sent out by 
him in 1852. It is doubtless from one of the 
La Reine type, crossed with some monthly 
rose, probably a Bourbon. The descendants 
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