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shadea deeper. It is undoubtedly a fine garden rose. Baroness 

 Rothschild and La France still hold their own as two of the finest 

 flesh-pink varieties. Duchess of Edinburgh is lighter than either of 

 the preceding, and is exceedingly fine. Jliss Hassard improves 

 immensely, aiid may now be considered one of the finest pink roses 

 we have. Captain Christy, on the other hand, does not improve on 

 acquaintance. It is very bright in colour, and the form is not bad 

 when caught right; but it is no sooner sufficiently advanced for 

 exhibition, than it expands to its fullest extent, and you have a rose 

 as coarse as a Moutan paeouy. 



From amongst those with flowers of a rose or rose-pink shade 

 were selected for their high merit, Madame Marie Finger, which 

 was shown largely ; Princess Beatrice, also popular. Annie Laxton 

 and Marquise de Castellane are two roses not unlike in character, 

 have flowers of a bright rose colour, and are well suited for the 

 garden. Comtesse de Chabrillaud is, perhaps, without an equal in 

 point of form, but rather small. Edward Morren is one of the 

 finest of the section, large, free, and rich in colour. Emilie Haus- 

 burgh is also good ; so are Francois Michelon, Henri Pajes, Julie 

 Touvais, Leopold Hauaburgh, Madame Alice Bureau, Madame 

 George Schwartz, Mdlle. Eugenie Verdier, Paul Verdier, Heine du 

 Midi, Richard Wallace, rather new, and remarkably fine, and Victor 

 Verdier. 



Tlie moderately dark roses represented by Alfred Colomb consti- 

 tute a most valuable class, for they mostly possess a good constitu- 

 tion, the flowers resist the eS"ects of bad weather, and have a telling 

 appearance in a 'stand of blooms on the exhibition table. John 

 Stuart Mill well sustained in the competition its character as a 

 desirable acquisition to its class. Mrs. Laxton, one of Mr. Laxton'a 

 seedlings, bids fair to take a foremost position, for the blooms 

 presented by the raiser at the Alexandra and Crystal Palaces were 

 very fine, surpassing in shape and colour that grand variety, Marie 

 Baumann. 



Here it may not be amiss to refer to a very interesting competi- 

 tion at Birmingham. Mr. Laxton offered a prize for the premier 

 bloom in the exhibition. This was no easy task for the judges, for 

 there were several thousand blooms to be selected from ; but after 

 some time speut in comparing the blooms in the stands, a bloom of 

 Senateur Vaisse was selected from the stand of seventy-two set up 

 by Messrs. Cranston and Mayos, and one of Marie Baumann from a 

 stand from Mr. Corp ; and in the end the Senateur was voted the 

 prize, and thus one of our oldest^roses was decided to be the best 

 rose in the show. 



In addition to the foregoing, the following are indispensable : — 

 Thomas Mills, Alfred Colomb, Beauty of Waltham, Camille Ber- 

 nardin, Charles Lefebvre, Countess of Oxford, Etienne Levet, Expo- 

 sition de Brie, Madame Charles Crapelet, Dr. Andry, Madame Victor 

 Verdier, Maurice Bernardin, and Miller Hays. 



Of the crimson section represented by General Jacqueminot, on 

 the one hand, and by Xavier Olibo, the best this season have been, 

 in addition to the two here mentioned, Pierre Netting, Duke of 



