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a beautiful effect on a pillar. Beauty of Billiard is, of all roses, the most 

 glowing and beautiful : its colour is described in the catalogue as scarlet ; 

 but it is rather a fiery crimson, so vivid that it may be distinguished at an 

 immense distance. This rose also requires care in using the knife ; the 

 extreme tips of the branches may be cut off, and some of th»m thinned out ; 

 it will then bloom in great perfection, but care must always be taken in win- 

 ter pruning to leave its shoots nearly their lull length. Becquet is a pretty 

 distinct dark crimson flower, very double and well shaped. Berie Marie is 

 a first rate rose, finely shaped, and a good show rose. Belle Parabere is a 

 very remarkable variety of inconceivable luxuriance ; its flowers are very 

 large ; it will in good soils, as a standard, soon form a large umbrageous 

 tree. Belle de Rosny is a hybrid noisette, blooming in very large clusters, 

 of first rate quality. Catel is one of our finest dark roses, very double and 

 finely shaped, quite worth the notice of the amateur. Coccinea surperba, or 

 " Vingt-neuf" juillet," is a rose alike beautiful in its flowers and foliage ; in 

 early spring its leaves and shoots are of a most vivid red, and this appear- 

 ance they retain the greater part of the summer ; its flowers are brilliant in 

 the extreme, crimson purple shaded with scarlet : the shoots of this rose 

 must also be left at nearly their full length. 



Coupe d'Amour richly deserves its name, for it is a beautiful neat rose, 

 quite perfect in its form and colour. 



Coronation is one of those purple shaded roses, inclining to slate, imbrica- 

 ted, and very perfect in its shape. Chatelaine is a hybrid Bourbon rose, 

 dove coloured, finely shaped, and very good. Coutard my be safely recom- 

 mended as a most perfect and good rose, flowering with great freedom, and 

 beautiful either as a dwarf or standard, Colonel Fabvier, also a sterling 

 good rose, is remarkable for its delicate fragrance. The Duke of Devon- 

 shire is an imbricated rose, one of the great favourites of the day, and most 

 deservedly so, for its rosy lilac petals are so delicately striped with white, 

 and its shape is so perfect, that it will always be admired. Due de Choiseul 

 is not a new variety ; but as it is between the China and Provence rose, 

 which is a species of hybridisation not very common, it is interesting : it forms 

 a very fine standard. Due de Choiseul ponctuee, or the spotted, is a most 

 distinct and pretty variety ; this makes longand slender shoots, and is well 

 adapted for a standard. Daphne is a hybrid Bourbon, and one of the most 

 beautiful of roses : it has the brilliant colour of that interesting group, and 

 the fine foliage, but its flowers are much more double than the generality of 

 Bourbon roses. Dr. Guepin is a most perfect shaped, globular rose, quite 

 distinct in its character ; this, with a few others, which will be noticed in 

 their turn, have beautiful spherical- shaped flowers, singular and pleasing. 

 Eugene Barbet is also one of these finely formed roses, with dark purplish 

 crimson flowers of first rate excellence. Elizabeth Fry is a hybrid noisette, 

 blooming in large clusters, a most brilliant and pleasing rose. Fulgens, or 

 the Malton rose, is certainly one of the most brilliant and beautiful of roses ; 

 the entire plant is also worthy of admiration, independant of its magnificent 

 globular scarlet flowers, as its foliage is so abundant, and so finely tinted 

 with red ; its branches so vigorous, and yet spreading so gracefully, that it 

 forms one of the very finest of standard roses. Fleuretle offers quite a con- 

 trast in its small delicately coloured, and finely shaped flowers, it is a desi- 

 rable and pretty variety. Fimbriata is a most curious and beautful rose: 

 each flower leaf is cut something like the petals of a pink, and as it is imbri- 

 cated, it looks more like a large self-coloured carnation than a rose. Gene- 

 ral Lamarque is one of the darkest of toscs, a most luxuriant grower, and 

 very distinct : in wet weather it is apt to lose its colour, and to change to a 

 dull brown." 



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