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' le dernier pas qui coute,' and not * le premier.' 

 Thus one more remove from the Moss Eose, and a 

 nearer approach to the Bourbon, would have pro- 

 bably given us merely a mediocre Bourbon Eose, 

 -with some very faint signs of its mossy parentage. 

 There are but few new summer Moss Eoses 

 worthy of attention, although, as usual, there are 

 plenty raised by the French florists ; they are, 

 however, only remarkable for their well-sounding 

 names. I have imported for several years every 

 new Moss Eose raised in France, to the amount of 

 nearly one hundred varieties, and have found but 

 few worthy of cultivation. Among these, Lane's 

 Moss, or ' Lanei,' raised from seed by M. Laffay, 

 is a fine globular and very double rose, with flowers 

 very fragrant and of a rich rosy crimson tinted 

 with purple; its habit is remarkably vigorous, 

 more so than that of any other Moss Eose, and a 

 large bed planted with it on its own roots would 

 have a fine effect. Princesse Eoyale, like the 

 above, is not a very new rose, but exceedingly 

 neat and pretty, as its flowers are light pink and 

 beautifully shaped ; in habit it is very vigorous. 

 Grloire des Mousseuses and Marie de Blois are two 

 very large double roses of remarkably vigorous 

 growth; the former is the largest of all Moss 

 Eoses ; in colour they differ but slightly from the 

 Old Moss Eose. Baron de Wassenaer is also a 

 new, large, and finely-shaped rose, deeper in 

 colour than the preceding, and approaching to 



