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stitute Boiile de Nanteuil, D'Aguesseau, Frederic 

 11., General Jacqueminot (Hybrid China), Gran- 

 dissima, Ohl, Paul Ricaut, Shakespeare, and 

 Triomphe de Jaussens. These are noble Roses, of 

 healthful growth, fine foliage, and ample bloonj. 

 They make grand heads on standards of medium 

 height, moderately pruned, and immoderately 

 manured. It seems to me but a few summers since 

 these were our finest show varieties, the belles of 

 our Court balls : and now, seen in the zenith of 

 their glory upon the trees, they are not to be sur- 

 passed in size or richness of color, but they have 

 not the perfect symmetry of our more recent 

 Roses, and they are but poor travellers, becoming 

 restless in hot summer nights, and throwing off 

 their petals, as feverish dreamers their counterpane 

 and blanket and sheet. 



Intermediate between these light and dark 

 varieties — neither blondes nor brunettes, Minnas 

 nor Brendas — and in place of the blush and pink 

 Roses which bloomed in our gardens together 

 with those I have described, such as " the Celes- 

 tial," the blush Boursault, and others, — I com- 

 mend for the general ornamentation of the Rose- 

 garden all the pillar Roses described at pp. 156 

 -158, especially Blairii 2, Charles Lawson, Coupe 

 d'Hebe, Juno, and Paul Perras. Low on bushes, 



