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it will prove one of our finest Christmas roses, 

 and should be cultivated after the method recom- 

 mended in p. 114. Its flowers in winter are 

 globular, fragrant, and of the colour of the 

 General, from which it is evidently a seedling. 

 I received it from France, under the name of 

 L'Etoile du Nord. 



CARMINE AND CHERRY-COLOURED. 



The roses of this range of colour are, per- 

 haps, the most chaste and pleasing of all, as their 

 flowers are, for the most part, so elegantly shaped. 

 General Brea and Prince Leon (we need not add 

 the ' Kotschoubey ') are gems, the latter re- 

 markable for its vigorous habit and fine foliage. 

 To these now old varieties we may add Jules 

 Margottin, which, taking it all in all its fine 

 colour, shape, fragrance, robust habit, and freedom 

 of flowering, during the whole summer and autumn 

 may be pronounced the finest rose known. How 

 grand are its early flowers, the personification of 

 our old cabbage rose, with a perfume quite equal, 

 and a bright rosy pink colour far more interesting. 

 The Duke of Cambridge, Lord Palmerston, Le 

 Ville de St. Denis, Madame Heraud, Madame 

 Furtado a perfect pattern of elegance in shape 

 and Madame Charles Crapelet , are the 

 'creme de la creme' of this group, and no 

 roses can be more charming ; they all, or nearly 

 all, have an intensity of rose colour, if the ex- 



