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been a great favourite with me ever since. The following are good Bourbon 

 roses : — 



Acidalie, — bluish-white, large and globu- 

 lar ; does not expand well on some soils. 



Adelaide Bougere, — dark velvety purple, 

 fine. 



Baronne de Koirmont, — fine form, beauti- 

 ful rose. 



Bouquet de Flore,— deep carmine, good 

 habit. 



Dupetit Thouars, — vivid crimson; one of 

 the best when it opens well. 



Gloire de Paris, — deep carmine, shaded 

 with purple, large and double. 



Empress Eugenie, — rosy blush, large and 

 full. 



George Peabody,— cupped, purplish -crim- 

 son. 



Louise Odier, — bright rose, good shape, 

 excellent habit. 



Menoux, — brilliant glowing carmine. 



Paul Joseph, — velvety, rich crimson. 



Sir J. Paxton, — brilliant rose, robust 

 grower. 



Queen of Bourbons, — fawn-coloured, most 

 abundant bloomer, beautiful in bud, 

 flimsy when open. 



Souvenir de 1' Exposition, — rich crimson, 

 very dark. 



Vorace,— large, fine, brilliant crimson. 



841. China Roses. — The common and crimson China are very beautiful, 

 either grown in beds or on walls. Among groups of bedding-plants mixed 

 with Cerise Unique, or Lady Middleton geranium, the common China rose, 

 edged with the crimson, and surrounded with a white baud of Alyssum or 

 Cerasthim tomentosuin, is very effective, distinct, and striking. Towards the 

 end of May or beginning of June, they will be in fall beauty, and the mass of 

 blush pink, with the setting I have described, is peculiarly soft and beautiful. 

 By cutting off the flowering-stems as soon as they begin to fade, a succession of 

 flowers will be secured throughout the summer. If, however, a short hiatus 

 should intervene, the geraniums will fill up the gap ; and the varieties I have 

 named have the merit of harmonizing nicely with the roses. Several other 

 China roses form beautiful groups for the flower-garden. The best for this 

 purpose are, perhaps, the following : — 



Gramoisie Supcrieure, — bright crimson. 

 Clara Sylvain, — pure white, large. 

 Prince Charles, — bright carmine. 



The following are also pretty China roses : — 



Mrs. Bosanquet, — pale flesh, similar in 

 habit to Bourbon Queen. 



Aimee Plantier, — ^bright fawn and rose. 

 Eugene Hardy, — creamy pale blush. 

 Marjohn, — rich dark crimson. 



Madame Breon, — bright rose, large and 

 good. 



The whole of the China roses require some protection in winter. Nothing is better 

 than some coal-ashes over the root, say eight inches thick, and a quantity of 

 boughs of spruce, &c , bent over the tops, from six to eight inches in thickness. 

 With this protection, the following tea-roses may be grouped in beds, in a 

 similar manner to the common China roses. The best and hai'dfest of these 

 delightfully sweet-scented roses, is Gloire de Dijon, a large buff-coloured rose, 

 with orange centre. It resisted a frost here last winter of 12° below zero, 

 both on walls and as standards, when hundreds of the hybrid perpetuals were 

 killed :— 



Abricot, — bright rosy fawn. 

 Bougere, — light rose, large and double. 

 Goubault, — shaded rose, robust grower. 

 Maria, — pure white. 



Madame Damazin, — bright salmon, free 

 bloomer. 



Marshal Bugeaud, — very large, rose- 

 colour. 



842. The very best of the tender tea-roses is Devoniensis, a creamy-white. 



