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and to the lighter, Madame Therese Levet, Marguerite de 

 St Armand, La Baronne de Rothschild, La France, Miss 

 Ingram, Reine Blanche, and many others. Time was when 

 the only yellow Roses exhibited (Cloth-of-Gold was in 

 existence, but lived in strict seclusion) were Solfaterre, with 

 very little yellow and still less shape ; Persian Yellow, in 

 hue golden, glorious, but in size a big buttercup ; and some- 

 times a bud of Smith's Yellow, which no power on earth 

 could induce to open, a pretty button-hole flower. Now 

 we have Celine Forestier, Triomphe de Rennes, Reine de 

 Portugal, and magnificent Marechal Niel ! Fancy Smith's 

 Yellow in a modern collection — Tom Thumb on parade 

 with the Guards ! 



The names which I have just written remind me how- 

 much the Tea and Noisette Roses diversify and beautify 

 our show collections. That the former are delicate and 

 difficult to produce when we most require them, is evident 

 from their sparse appearance in public; but it is just one 

 of those superable difficulties which separate the sincere 

 from the spurious Rose-grower, and which only the former 

 overcomes. The conservatory and the orchard-house (there 

 ought to be, wherever there is taste and opulence, a Rose- 

 house) are undoubtedly the best homes for the Tea Rose ; 



