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has not proved hardy here, and has suffered severely every 

 winter. QUEEN VICTORIA is of a better constitution : it. 

 is white, shaded with pink. WILLIAM GRIFFITHS is an 

 old and excellent rose, of a peculiar light satin rose-color : 

 it rarely suffers from the winter. VIRGINAL is pure white. 

 LA MERE DE ST. Louis is of a waxy flesh-color, and, 

 though not very full, is distinct and beautiful. MADAME 

 RIVERS is of a very light rose. COMTESSE DE CHABRIL- 

 LANT is of a clear pink, and very fine. MADAME KNORR 

 is of a somewhat deeper shade, and singularly beautiful in 

 bud. LOUISE MAGNAN and DR. HENON may, with Vir- 

 ginal, in the absence of better, represent the white Hybrid 

 Perpetuals, a color in which this class is very defi- 

 cient ; while a yellow or buff rose is as yet unknown in it, 

 although it is said that such an one has been produced, 

 and will soon be " brought out." 



The following are a selection from the new roses ; and, 

 though their merits have not as yet been tried by the test 

 of time, there can be very little doubt that all of them will 

 prove of the highest merit : 



MAURICE BERNARDIN is of a bright vermilion, very 

 large and full. CHARLES LEFEBVRE is of a bright crimson, 

 purplish at the centre, and seems an admirable rose. MRS. 

 WILLIAM PAUL is of a violet-red, shaded with crimson. 



