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models of perfection, and should be in every 

 rosery. Bouqueb de Flore and Le Florifere are 

 two old varieties, robust and hardy, blooming 

 freely in the autumn. 



BLUSH AND FLESH-COLOURED. 



There is a peculiar silvery blush appertaining to 

 some Bourbon Eoses, very remarkable and pleasing. 

 Comtesse de Barbantanne, Imperatrice Eugenie, 

 and Madame Comtesse, are of this delicate colour ; 

 but the rose of this group is Souvenir de la 

 Malmaison, now an old variety, but as yet un- 

 rivalled in its noble flowers, so delicate in colour 

 and so truly beautiful. 



WHITE AND FAWN-COLOURED. 



Only one really good White Bourbon Eose 

 exists at present, an old favourite, and deservedly 

 so, Acidalie. Who that has seen this beautiful 

 rose in fine calm weather in September, has been 

 able to withhold intense admiration? Its large 

 globular finely-shaped flowers of the purest white, 

 delicately tinted with purplish rose, seem always 

 to be drooping with beauty. Yes, it is indeed 

 unique and charming. Madame Angelina, with 

 cream-coloured flowers, and the Queen of the 

 Bourbons, with rosy fawn-coloured flowers, are 

 also quite unique in their colouring, and well 

 worthy of cultivation. 



