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HoRTENSE LE RoY (hybrid Bourbon). — A very bright rose colour, 

 and a superb flower. 



CEiLLET Parfait (GalHca).— Light rosy-purple, beautifully striped 

 with rose and bright red ; very handsome. 



Paul Perras (hybrid Bourbon).— Briglit rose, shaded with dark ; 

 very large and splendid. 



Madame Laffay (hybrid perpetual). — Deep rich rose colour; 

 very large, superb form, and showy. 



Proserpine (Bourbon). — Eich crimson-red, tinged with purple ; 

 a splendid rose. 



Due DE Valmy (Gallica). — A magnificent bright rose-coloured 

 flower. 



Queen of the Bourbons. — Delicate creamy-salmon ; very fragrant 

 and beautiful. 



Anne Beluze (Bourbon). — Delicate rose colour ; very beautiful. 



Augustine Mouchelet. — Bright rose colour, with a carmine 

 centre ; very handsome. 



Elize Sauvage.— Tea-scented ; yellow, with an orange centre; 

 beautiful. 



Aricie (hybrid perpetual). — Beautiful rosy-lilac. 



Pearl des Panaciiees. — A very beautiful light and dark-striped 

 rose ; peculiarly handsome. 



Modeste Guerin. — A very beautiful and excellent rose. 



Solfaterre (Noisette). — Bright sulphur ; very large. 



Letitia (Gallica). — Eich deep rose, large and very compact; 

 very superb. 



Glorie de Couline (hybrid China).— A brilliant crimson, large 

 globular, and very splendid. 



Due DE Trevise (Gallica).— Rich velvet-crimson, edged and 

 striped with purple, and most superb. 



Amiable Queen (Gallica). — Fine velvet-purple; very superb. 



Duguesclin (Gallica). — Dark velvet-crimson; very superb. 



William Tell (Gallica). — A fine brilliant rich rose colour. 



Emperor (Moss). — A very brilliant crimson. 



Lady Warrender (tea-scented China).— White, with a buff 

 centre ; very superb. 



Colbert (Gallica). — Dark purple-crimson ; fine. 



Shakespeare. — Rich crimson, with a dark centre ; very fine. 



The above have been noted with great care, and we can assure our 

 readers they are of first-rate character. AVe do not wish it to be 

 understood we exclude all others, but they were the best of the very 

 numerous kinds exhibited the past season at the noble exhibitions 

 named above. 



At the Royal Gardens, Kew. 



Vernonia axtlliflora. — The plant is a neat boxtree-like stove 

 plant, producing its munerous flowers in tufts : they appear like fine 

 threads, about half an inch long, and are a fine blue colour, very 

 pretty and neat. Well deserves to be grown in every collection. 



Pterostigma grandiflora. — The flowers are somewhat of the 

 niimulus form, a pretty blue colour, stove plant. 



