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Hybrid Perpetuals, 
In this we have the greatest of all classes. Its origin is 
“wropt in mistry.” As mentioned in Chapter 4, there has 
been a great deal of in-and-out cross-breeding, several species, 
or hybrids between species, having been drawn upon by raisers. 
Hybrid Perpetuals give us by far the largest proportion of show 
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FIG. 54.—FRANCOIS MICHELON. 
Roses, and also some of the most valuable of garden Roses. 
The following selections may be useful : — 
Thirty H. Ps for Exhibition— 
Abel Carriére, maroon, shaded purple. | Comte de Raimbaud, purplish crimson. 
Alfred Colomb, rich red. Duchesse de Morny, silvery. 
A. K. Williams, carmine. Duchess of Bedford, crimson, 
Camille Bernardin, light crimson. Duke of Wellington, crimson, 
Captain Hayward, crimson. Dupuy Jamain, cerise. 
