224 THE ROSE. 
coloring, silvery-pink, tinged with salmon, 
and Charles Lefebvre, which is beautiful in 
both flower and leaf, the color of General 
Jacqueminot deepened by a shade of satiny- 
purple. Among the roses not sufficiently 
well known are Marguerite de St. Amande, a 
deep pink sort, which gives beautiful buds 
as well as fine flowers, and blossoms through 
the summer and autumn months; Baroness 
Rothschild, a blush-pink, with exquisite cup- 
shaped flowers freely produced; Francois 
Michelon, a striking variety, intermediate in 
character between its parent La Reine and 
General Jacqueminot, thus uniting two rival 
dynasties. It has large, deep rose-colored 
flowers, veined with lilac, and is of splendid 
globular form. It blooms late, the flowers 
not developing until most others of the same 
class are past their prime. Eliza Boelle is, 
perhaps, the best white rose that we have. 
It blooms profusely all through the summer 
months; the flowers are full, of the most 
perfect, globular form, the centre generally 
tinged with blush. It is not possible to 
imagine a flower of greater beauty. The 
best of the moss-roses are Gracilis, Common, 
and Crested. Not the least of the qualities 
we desire in arose is fragrance. In this re- 
gard, all varieties of all classes must do 
