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it is one of the most robust and hardy of Tea 

 Roses. Julie Mansais and Niphetos are two 

 pure white roses of first-rate excellence. Louise 

 de Savoie, a large and fine rose, and Narcisse, the 

 latter an improvement on Pactolus, are beautiful 

 pale yellow roses. So far we have gone through 

 the shades of colour in this class, leaving only that 

 remarkable class of which Safrano is the type : the 

 buds of this rose, as is well known, are of a deep 

 fawn before expansion, and then very beautiful ; 

 but they soon fade on opening, and lose all their 

 beauty. In this class of roses a new variety, ex- 

 hibited in 1853, in Paris, raised at Dijon, and 

 called Grloire de Dijon, is a great acquisition ; its 

 flowers are as large and as durable as those of the 

 Bourbon Souvenir de la Malrnaison, which they 

 much resemble in shape ; but their colour, nearly 

 as deep as the buds of Safrano, is most striking ; 

 its foliage is as thick and large, and its habits as 

 robust as those of the above well-known Bourbon 

 Rose, and as it opens freely in our climate it is 

 highly popular.* Another fawn-coloured rose 

 raised at Lyons, which is new, also deserves 

 attention ; it is called Auguste Vacher ; its flowers 

 are not so large as those of Grloire de Dijon, 

 but double and of a deeper, brighter fawn-colour 

 something like Noisette Ophirie ; its habit is most 

 vigorous and robust. Madame William, a rose 



* I have very recently learned that it succeeds perfectly in 

 the north, and that near Aberdeen it has bloomed beautifully. 



