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sent to me by Mr Curtis, of the Devon Nursery, Torquay, 

 made shoots 10 feet in length the first summer after plant- 

 ing, and now covers a large space on a wall 18 feet high. 

 It blooms here even earlier than Gloire de Dijon, and I 

 gathered perfect flowers from it during the month of No- 

 vember last. 



Keep a sharp look-out, when pruning, for wood diseased 

 or decayed, because, although the Rose gave ample proof 

 of its hardihood by surviving the trying winter and spring 

 of 1S66-6/, the ends of its shoots and its young laterals are 

 liable to be injured by frost ; and all crippled limbs and 

 unhealthy flesh should, of course, be amputated. 



There are two Roses, I am well aware — two sisters of this 

 same ''most divinely tall" family — more beautiful than 

 those which I have preferred before them. When we held 

 our third National Rose-show in the Crystal Palace at 

 Sydenham — the first of those exhibitions which have since 

 been so popular in that grand creation of a gardener's 

 genius — I remember that some of us were made almost 

 angry by the excessive share of admiration received by one 

 of these Roses. An anxious eager crowd jumped and 

 jostled to get a view of it, reckless of each other's corns. 

 I heard a remark from one visitor to another, a short man 



