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brilliancy of colour and size of flower, this variety 

 is superior ; the foliage and habit of the plant are 

 also much more elegant and striking ; in colour 

 its flowers are^ of a peculiarly glowing vivid 

 crimson, discernible at a great distance; it is, 

 indeed, an admirable rose, and cannot be too much 

 cultivated. 



A very old, but almost forgotten rose of this 

 group is Fulgens : its colour is almost scarlet, and 

 a charming peculiarity is that of its petals having 

 a shell-like bloom outside, while their inside is 

 of a glowing red. The tree forms a graceful 

 and large standard. Leopold de Bouffremont, a 

 bright pink rose, blooming in large clusters, also 

 forms a fine umbrageous standard, as does Tri- 

 omphe de Laquene, which gives crimson flowers, 

 nicely shaped. Madame Plantier, a free-blooming 

 white rose, like the preceding varieties, is worthy 

 of a place in the rose-garden, for these vigorous 

 growing roses form large headed and very orna- 

 mental standards ; they are, in truth, tree-roses, 

 to which title most of the varieties cultivated as 

 standards have no claim. The true tree-rose is 

 the old variety called the Double Apple-bearing 

 rose, the ( Kosa sylvestris pomifera major ' of 

 Miller's * Gardeners' Dictionary.' At the com- 

 mencement of the present century this kind was 

 the only tree rose of our gardens, with the excep- 

 tion of the Double Sweet Briar, which in strong 

 soils often formed itself into a fine standard tree. 



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