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riant shoots, with flowers varying in colour from 

 pure white to deep red. The Crimson also takes 

 a wide range ; for though its original colour is 

 crimson, yet I have reason to believe that the 

 pure white, which was raised in Essex, came from 

 its seed. There are but few of these roses now 

 cultivated, owing to their want of fragrance, the 

 Hybrid Perpetuals having superseded them ; still 

 they are beautiful roses for small beds, and we 

 have not even now any rose more beautiful than 

 Cramoisie Superiure; its flowers are so finely 

 formed, and its crimson tints so rich. Another 

 member of this semperflorens group is Eugene 

 Beauharnais ; its colour amaranth, and its flowers 

 large and double. Fabvier, with semi-double 

 scarlet flowers, exhausts our catalogue of the most 

 worthy of these crimson semperflorens roses. 

 Clara Sylvain and Madame Bureau are two pure 

 pearly-white roses, which form an admirable con- 

 trast to those first described. 



For blush roses we have the yet unrivalled Mrs. 

 Bosanquet. Archduke Charles and Virginie are 

 the best of those roses that, when they open are 

 rose-coloured, and yet, in a day or two, if the 

 weather be warm and dry, change to dark crimson. 

 I have seen them in France nearly black. Madame 

 Breon is a fine large rose, with brilliant rose- 

 coloured flowers, well worthy of cultivation ; and 

 in these few lines, we have exhausted our China 

 Koses, which, at one time, were our only roses that 



