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Madame Pompadour.— Beautiful pink ; broad petals; double. 



Arago. — Orange; crimson red before expanding. 



Conqueror. — Blush ; very broad petal j large flower. 



Flonbundum. — Tasselied pink ; deeper colour towards centre. 



Formosum.— Sulphur when the petals first expand, but afterwards become 

 white, so that the flower eventually has a white ray and sulphur disk, producing 

 a pretty effect ; petals broad. 



Cem. — White ; broad petals, outer ones tinged with pink. 



Insigne — Deep rosy-purple at the outside of petals, the inside being nearly 

 white ; petals broad. 



Sanguineum. — Deep crimson; broad petals. 



Luculum. — White incurved ; broad petals. 



Marquis. — Blush ; broad petals ; very double. 



Compactum.. —White ; broad petals ; in form like a fine double ranunculus. 



Princess Maria.— Rose ; broad petals ; in form like a double ranunculus. 



Due de Catineau.—Deev red; broad petals; the centre is yellow before 

 expanding. 



Isabella.— Beautiful pure white upper side ; outer side of petals before they 

 expand yellow ; in form like a double ranunculus. 



Coronet. — Centre of bloom pale sulphur ; when petals have expanded some 

 time they become pure white ; petals broad ; in form like a double ranunculus. 



Minerva.— Centre of bloom pale yellow, next petals white, outer ones pinkish- 

 blush ; broad petals. 



Mirabite.— Centre light buff, the outer petals creamy-white; petals broad; 

 flower very double. 



Theresia. — Orange red ; petals broad ; flour large. 



Celestial.— Centre white ; outer petals of a beautiful blush tinge ; flower the 

 form of a double ranunculus. 



Triumphant. — Centre buff'; as the petals expand, they become nearly white on 

 the upper side and of a deep pink on the under side ; flower very double. 

 Rosalind.— Beautiful pink ; outer petals quilled, centre ones tasselied. 

 Exquisite. — Cream coloured centre, but as the petals expand they become 

 white; petals broad. 



Bicolor. — Pure white inside, outer tinged with yellow ; a very neat form and 

 blooms profusely. 



[To be continued, with instructions on a new mode of treatment recently 

 adopted.] 



Superb Roses. — This list of the best Roses in each section named below 

 have been sent us by Mr. C. Wood, of Woodlands Nursery, and growing in their 

 celebrated collection. Sempervirens : — Felicite perpetuelle, small double 

 cream-coloured, a specimen trained over a trellis, which covers upwards of CO 

 square feet, and is quite dazzling; Princess Louise, creamy white and rose; 

 and Princess Marie, line reddish pink. Ayrshire: — Alice Grey, beautiful large 

 blush; myrrh-scented, blush, remarkable for its peculiar aromatic odour; and 

 Ruga, pale flesh. Boursault: — Crimson, purplish crimson, v-lvety ; and 

 Gracilis, fine bright rose colour. Mui.tih.ora:— Laure Davoust, fine deep 

 pink; and Rubra, email, compact, rose colour. Hybrid climbing: — The Gar- 

 land, small pink, lilac, and blush, very changeable; this variety flowers in 

 immense clusters; on one branch of a rather iarge specimen that we saw, there 

 could not have been less than 700 flowers; and Wells' white, which also pro- 

 duces immense clusters of blossoms. All the above-mentioned kinds are strung 

 growers and free flowerers, and therefore admirably adapted for training up 

 pillars, dead trees, or over trellis-work. Briars:— Mossy, double-rose, bud 

 quite mossy; Rose Angle, double bright pink; and Scarlet, beautiful crimson 

 scarlet : the two first named possess the fragrance of the common Sweet Briar. 

 Gai.i.ica: — A Fleurs 8 feuilles inaibrees, a singular variety with variegated 

 leaves and deep blush flowers, marbled with red; Anarelle, double, deep lilac 

 blush; Belle de Murly, large, rose mottled with lilac, a good show (lower; 

 Carageon. globular, large blush; D'Aguesseau. large deep erimson, veiy 

 double ; Due de Trevise, crimson, edged and striped with purple, remarkably 



