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gardener at the Chateau de Neuilly, near Paris, 

 who distributed them among the rose cultivators 

 of France.' JVL Breon named it * Eose de L'lle 



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de Bourbon ;' and is convinced that it is a hybrid 

 from one of the above roses, and a native of the 

 island. Owing to the original being a hybrid, the 

 roses of this family vary much in their characters ; 

 most of them form compact bushes, and are nicely 

 adapted for rose beds ; others are so vigorous as 

 to be eligible only for pillar and wall roses. The 

 varieties, as in the preceding family, are by far 

 too numerous ; a selection divided into groups of 

 colour, will, I think, give all that my readers 

 require. 



DARK CRIMSON. 



Our old favourites, Paul Joseph and Dupetit 

 Thouars, still hold their rank in this class of colour; 

 and Vorace, Jurie, Souvenir de FExposition, Ee- 

 veil, and Adelaide Bougere, the three latter re- 

 markable for richness of colour, are well worthy 

 the attention of the rose amateur. Dr. Leprestre 

 and Victor Emanuel, the latter remarkable for its 

 richly-coloured and finely-shaped flowers, are fine 

 roses ; but in this class a new rose, La Quintinie, 

 raised at St. Denis, is one of the finest of all; it is 

 of the rich velvety hue of our old hybrid Greorge 

 the Fourth, its flowers are large and finely shaped, 

 and it is altogether a magnificent rose, but delicate 

 in its habit. 



