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Madame Gabriel Lnizet, vigorous, hardy, free bloomer and 

 delicate satin rose color, and I think may prove one of the best. 

 Sent out in 1878. 



Abel Carrier, moderately vigorous, hardy, beautiful dark vel- 

 vety crimson flower. 



Coquette de Blanche, is a white rose, and a truly perpetual 

 bloomer until late in tlie Autumn ; a remarkably vigorous grower 

 and has proved hardy with me until last Winter, when it was 

 killed to tlie ground. 



Madame Georges Schwartz, vigorous and hardy, glossy rose. 



Mabel Morrison, good grower, sport from Baronesse de Roths- 

 child, pure white, not very double. 



Dupuy Jamin, vigorous grower, color very fine carmine 

 crimson. 



Madame Scipion Cochet, very vigorous in growth, color bright 

 cherry red. 



Senateur Yaisse, hardy, good grower, flowers large and full, 

 color brilliant red. 



Princess Louise Victoria, vigorous, of a climbing tendency, 

 flowers rosy salmon pink. 



Bessie tfohnson, vigorous, of rather spreading growth, color 

 blush wliitc. 



Triomphe de Caen, a strong grower, flowers brilliant scarlet. 



Madame Victor Verdier, growtli vigorous, large flower, bright 

 rosy crimson. 



Beauty of Waltham, vigorous grower, flowers finely formed, 

 cupped, color cherry crimson. 



Fisher Holmes, of strong, spreading growth, flowers very large 

 and double, color reddisli scarlet. 



Jean Gonjon, vigorous grower, flowers large, beautiful clear 

 red. 



Souvenir de Chs. M-ontault, good grower, free flowering, fra- 

 grant, color purple and crimson. 



I will now name a few varieties tliat have not proved hardy or 

 have been weak in growth, and less satisfactory in general results 

 in my experience : 



Madame Baronesse de Rothschild is usually winter-killed 

 nearly to the ground, and never a vigorous grower. We cannot 

 however, accord too high praise to the color of this rose, and 

 with some growers it has proved successful, though always lafe 

 in. starting. 



Madame Lacharme, rather tender with me, doomed especially 



to the damaging attacks of the rose bug, and seldom giving me a 



flower of any approach to perfection, though President Hayes of 



the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, at the Rose Exhibition 



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