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these Perpetual Damasks are too robust and ruddy, 

 but that they charm us no more as when Mr. Lee 

 of Hammersmith introduced Rose du Roi to a de- 

 hghted pubHc, and the Comte, who presided over 

 the gardens in which the Rose was raised at St. 

 Cloud, resigned his office in disgust because the 

 flower was not named after himself, Lelieur — a 

 most ungracious act, seeing that it was by the 

 King's (Louis XVIII.) desire that the Rose had 

 its royal title, and that the honor of originating 

 the variety was due (no uncommon case) to 

 Suchet, the foreman, and not to Lelieur, the chef. 

 Mogador, which was subsequently raised from 

 Rose du Roi, was a decided improvement, and is 

 still very effective in a bed, from its vivid crimson 

 tints ; but very few of those amateurs who may 

 pay me the compliment of furnishing their Rosa- 

 ries with the varieties which I commend the most, 

 will, I think, have room, when I have completed 

 my catalogue, for the Damask Perpetual Rose. 



It can vie no more with that section, the most 

 perfect and extensive of all, which we will next 

 consider, so far as its garden Roses are con- 

 cerned — viz., the Hybrid Perpetual, a family so 

 numerous and so beautiful withal, that two of our 

 most fastidious Rosarians, ejecting from a select 

 list every flower which has not some special excel- 



