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plant of Gloire de Dijon.’’ For my part, I would 
choose La France, for there is very little beauty of 
colour or form to a florist’s eye in the well-known 
‘Glory Die-John,” except perhaps quite in the bud, 
and even these are comparatively fat and squat, and 
wanting in the elegance of the long, clean, pointed 
buds of the aristocrats of Roses. A plant of Gloire 
de Dijon may be a hundred times the size of one of 
Comtesse de Nadaillac, and may have more than 
a hundred times the number of blooms; but take 
the finest Gloire de Dijon that ever was seen 
and set it in a stand by a fair representative flower 
of the other, and the great inferiority in every 
respect, even in size, would at once be manifest. 
The foliage is very fine, but it is not so evergreen as 
Maréchal Niel and some other of the Noisettes, 
nor does it clothe the bases of the branches so well 
as Réve d’Or. It is not liable to mildew, cares little 
for rain, and its bushels of blooms come unusually 
uniform in colour and generally of the same weak 
open shape. It is thoroughly hardy in this country, 
and will grow and flourish almost anywhere and 
anyhow, tolerably well even on a north wall; but in 
America it has not proved so hardy against really 
severe winters as some of the pure Teas, such 
as Francisca Kriiger and Edith Gifford, and it is not 
so popular in any country as it is here. A Rose of 
such notoriety, which forms seed vessels freely, has 
naturally been a prolific parent of varieties of similar 
habit, forming a race, almost a class in themselves. 
They differ only in colour, in shades of yellow, 
salmon, and white. Among the best are Belle 
Lyonnaise, Bouquet d’Or, Duchesse d’Auerstadt, 
Emilie Dupuy, Henriette de Beauveau, Kaiserin 
