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the fine Grand Due Adolfe de Luxembourg, clear 

 pink with a deep rose reverse to each petal, 

 completes a truly lovely trio. 



Few Roses, perhaps, have created a greater 

 sensation than did La France in 1867, raised 

 by Guillot. And a noble Rose it is, though the 

 slight lilac tinge in its pink petals detracts to 

 my mind at least from its perfect beauty. 

 But this is what my French friends would call 

 " chercher la petite bte," an ungrateful 

 criticism ; and I confess to a little mania 

 for pure pink, such as that of Caroline Testout. 

 By a wise decision of the National Rose 

 Society, La France and all its allied varieties, 

 together with Lady Mary FitzWilliam and 

 the invaluable Captain Christy, are now placed 

 among the Hybrid Teas, to which race, by 

 reason of the substance of their petals, their 

 foliage, and their wood, they have always to 

 me appeared to belong. 



With Captain Christy ', which followed La 

 France in 1873, I can find no fault as to 

 colour, shape, foliage, or anything else, save 

 that I cannot have enough of his [glorious 



