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Rose, and tastefully placed with a frond of Adiantum, (Cuneatum, Sanctee 

 Catherinre, or Tenerum) in her back hair — I beg pardon, her back snakes — 

 would make even a Fury good-looking. It belongs to the Hybrid China 

 family, as does 



Brenmis, far more happy as a Climbing Rose than when, scaling with his Gauls 

 the Tarpeian rock, he woke up the geese who woke up the Romans to repel 

 him headlong, and to save their capital. It is a most free-growing, free- 

 blooming variety, with large deep carmine flowers. 



Chai'les Lawson, a hybrid from the Isle de Bourbon Rose, makes a noble speci- 

 men, producing magnificent blooms of a bright glowing pink abundantly 

 in all seasons. This glorious Rose well deserves all those adjectives expres- 

 sive of beauty which, I begin to fear, my readers will regard as wearisome 

 and vain repetitions. I can only plead that the epithets are true, and cry 

 " Excuse tautology !" as I once heard a parrot scream for the best part of a 

 summer's day. 



Chenedollc, Hybrid China, is a veiy attractive garden Rose. Not "an article 

 which will bear the closest inspection " of anatomical eyes, but adding gi-eatly 

 to the general effect of the Rosarium with its vivid crimson flowers. 



Coupe d''Hebt\ Hybrid Bourbon, is perhaps a size smaller than we should have 

 expected Hebe's cup to be, considering the requirements of such inflam- 

 matory personages as Jupiter, Mars, and Bacchus. Probably, when the gods 

 set up a butler, as they did on the dismissal of Hebe, and in the person of 

 Ganymede, they may have enlarged their goblets ; but it was a fashion of 

 the ancients, including our own grandfathers, to take their wine from egg- 

 cups and extinguishers of glass. Be this as it may. Coupe d'Hebe is 

 undoubtedly one of our most graceful and refined Roses, exquisite in form 

 and in colour, the latter a silvery blush. Referring to a list of the Roses 

 which I grew in 1851, I find that, of 434 varieties, 410 have been disannulled 

 to make way for their betters ! Of the two dozen which are in office still, 

 three-fourths are climbing or decorative Roses, and six only of sufficient 

 merit to pass the ordeal of exhibition — namely, Blairii 2, Cloth-of-Gold, 

 Devoniensis, La Reine, Souvenir de Malmaison, and Coupe d'Hebe. 



There was another 



Genej-al Jacqueminot, a Hybrid China Rose, in high favour at that time ; and 



