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is one of the best, while Alice Furon, Souvenir 

 du President Carnot, Mme. Fernet Ducher, 

 Augustine Guinoisseau or the white La France, 

 Lady Mary FitzWilliam, and Viscountess Folke- 

 stone, are all excellent ; and I am looking for- 

 ward with extreme interest to two plants of 

 the " lemon chrome and golden yellow " 

 novelty of 1906, Mrs. Peter 'Blair, which 

 were sent me as a birthday present. 



Besides those I have already mentioned, 

 other pink, peach, and salmon among my 

 favourites are Grace Darling, Antoine Rivoire, 

 Prince de Bulgarie, Madame Cadeau Ramey, 

 Earl of Warwick, Dean Hole, and the superb 

 new Betty ; while in rose and crimson, I 

 rejoice in Lady Battersea, a really grand Rose, 

 Lady Wenlock, the invaluable Marquise de Salis- 

 bury, Marquise Litta, and Liberty. 



Some of the semi-double Roses of this class 

 are extremely decorative ; and of two I am 

 specially fond, the pale lemon Gustave Rtgis, 

 and the vivid crimson Bardou Job, whose 

 nearly single flowers are blotched with maroon 

 so dark as to be almost black. Another very 



