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and warmth of May adding to its usual vivid tints, this rose 

 was the most brilUant, the most beautiful, I ever beheld. 

 The figure of it given in Mr. Paul's Rose Garden gives but 

 a very inadequate idea of its rich, deep, glowing scarlet ; it 

 is not a very free grower when budded on the Dog rose ; the 

 Rosa Manetti seems to suit it admirably. I have never seen 

 such flowers as my plants budded on that stock have pro- 

 duced. 



Cymedor is another brilliant rose of this class, in color 

 approaching perhaps to the Brompton stock 7 No ; yes ; no ; 

 who can describe the color of some roses? '■•Cest imjwssible^ 

 Monsieur^'' said Monsieur V., with a violent shrug of his 

 shoulders, to give more effect to the " sibley " Yes, Mon- 

 sieur," I replied, " God will give us, in his great bounty, 

 such beauties as cannot be copied or described." Monsieur 

 V. was silent. 



Soleil d'Austerlitz is another of these brilliant crimson 

 roses, with neatly cupped flowers, quite worthy of the notice 

 of the amateur. 



Commandant Fournier is also a brilliant colored rose, of a 

 bright carmine ; a very nice variety. Comte Montalivet, 

 apparently a seedling from William Jesse, is a fine and very 

 large rose, much deeper in color than its parent, with flowers 

 finely cupped, not quite full, owing to which it blooms in 

 great perfection in autumn. Jacques Lafitte, which last 

 season was so superb, has not proved a good early blooming 

 variety ; its flowers have been hitherto crowded with petals, 

 and imperfect. I observe, however, to-day, (June 19th,) that 

 it is producing some flowers of the same deep rich rose color 

 as last season. Reine de Fleurs is a new and very beauti- 

 fully shaped rose, varying in color from pale rose to rose. It 

 is most elegantly cupped and decidedly a good variety, but 

 without novelty in color. Madame Verdier is also remarka- 

 ble for the extreme perfection of shape of its finely cupped 

 flowers, which are of a pale blush. The plant is very dwarf, 

 and forms a compact little bush. Bouton de Flore, of a pale 

 rose color, is remarkable for blooming in very large clusters, 

 forming a fine bush. L'inflexible is a new rose of great 

 beauty, not for novelty in color, as it is merely of a pinkish 

 rose, but for its neatness and beauty ; it is. indeed, in shape 



