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of novelties without novelty is, I fear, bringing 

 rose-cultivation to charlatanism, which can only be 

 stemmed by the English growers being well 

 assured of the qualities of a new rose before they 

 recommend it. We must not pass over some old 

 friends in this class of colour. General Jacque- 

 minot, with its luxuriant growth and magnifi- 

 cent clusters of flowers, has always been a 

 favourite, and will continue to be so, although its 

 large crimson flowers are not so full and perfect 

 in shape as those of the varieties I have enume- 

 rated. Triomphe des Beaux Arts, a seedling from 

 the General, with the same beauties and defect, is 

 also worthy of a place in the rosery. It is by 

 cultivating such free-growing roses as pyramids 

 (see p. 114) that their full beauty is brought out. 

 There is one new and beautiful rose of this 

 class that seems to have escaped the attention' of 

 rose growers, for I do not find it in their cata- 

 logues. I mention this more particularly, because 

 of its peculiar property of blooming profusely 

 late in autumn. My young plants have been 

 in full bloom all this month (November 1860). 

 In summer it was thought not to be a first rate 

 rose, as its flowers were much like those of 

 General Jacqueminot, but not so double, and in- 

 clined to flaccidity, fading in sunshine. It is this 

 thinness of petal that, like the old rose Gloire 

 de Eosomene, makes it open its flowers and 

 enjoy the cool autumnal months. I believe that 



