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large, truly magnificent variety : for beauty of bud, size, consistence^ and per- 

 fume of flower, it stands unrivalled. It has a peculiar odour, all its own ; and 

 I would undertake to pick out a flower of Devoniensis out of a hundred by the 

 scent alone. The leaves, too, are beautiful and glossy, the habit good, and for a 

 tea-rose it is a robust grower. I hope your many thousands of readers will secure 

 this rose-plant at once, before the demand raises their price from eighteen 

 pence to half a crown. It will do well in a sheltered situation out of doors in 

 summer ; and a clean sunny window will be the spot for it in winter, until the 

 little greenhouse that is to be built. The following are also beautiful varieties 

 of this interesting class : — 



Adam, — rose large and splendid. 

 Barillet Deschamps, — pale lemon, large, 

 Eliza Sauvage, — pale yellow, with orange 



centre. 

 La Boule d'Or, — fine golden yellow. 

 Le Pactole, — lemon, small. 

 Madame Bravy, — cream-colour, beautiful, 



large, and full. 

 Moire, — rosy fawn, beautifully shaded. 

 Nipheto, — pure white, lemon centre. 

 President, — salmon-shaded rose, fine form, 



large, and double. 



Princess Marie, — a large, tender, beau- 

 tiful rose, well adapted for facing; flowers 

 continue long in bloom. 



Safrona, — bright apricot - coloured, very 

 beautiful. 



Souvenir d'un Ami, — salmon and rose, 

 large and full, one of the best ; good 

 shape. 



Souvenir d'Elise, — creamy white, tinted 

 with rose, large and fuU. 



Vicomtesse de Gazes, beautiful bright 

 orange-yellow. 



843. For planting out in consei-vatories, covering walls in arcades, or heated 

 walls covered with glass out of doors, these roses rival the Camellia in beauty 

 of tint, and some of them almost equal it in shape ; and then their perfume, — 

 truly nothing can equal it. They also form excellent pot-plants for adornmg 

 the greenhouse or conservatory throughout the summer; and, in a warm 

 conservatory, they can be had in flower at almo&t any time. Their tenderness 

 excepted, they require the same general treatment as other roses. They 

 thrive well in a well -drained compost, of equal parts loam, leaf -mould, and 

 peat, and a sixth part broken charcoal and gritty sand. Before starting them 

 in the spring is a good time to pot them ; and if they could be plunged for a 

 few weeks after this operation in a gentle bottom-heat of 50°, so much the 

 better. They could then be placed fully exposed to the light on a greenhouse 

 shelf. The pots should be placed in a larger-sized pot, with a layer of moss 

 between, to protect the i-oots from the heat of the sun. After flowering, the 

 shoots should be cut back to two or three eyes, and any weak old shoots cut 

 entirely out. They will break again directly, and flower several times 

 throughout the season. After their last flowering in September, they may be 

 placed for a month or so exposed to the sun out of doors, to give them a season 

 of rest, and be kept dormant until wanted again in the spring. It required 

 for winter-flowering, however, they must be moved out of doors, and a rest, -if 

 possible (for it is not always possible), secured earlier ; or they may remain under 

 glass to ripen their wood ; be pruned at the end of September or heginnmg of 

 October ; kept in a genial temperature of from 50° to 60°, and they will be in 

 flower at Christmas. When growing fk-eely, they enjoy weak manure-water; 

 bi;t they are very impatient of an excess of moisture or gross food. I think 

 them less liable to the attacks of insects than other roses ; but if they appear. 



