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like that fine old rose Elise Sauvage, but hardier, 

 is a kind quite worthy of culture. 



Madame de St. Joseph, pale salmon tinted with 

 pink, is nearly unique in colour ; but its flowers 

 are often very irregular in their shape. Souvenir 

 d'Elise Vardon is a new creamy white rose, tinted 

 with rose, and a distinct variety always beautiful. 



But very few distinct roses of this class have 

 been recently introduced, although many new 

 varieties have. Due de Magenta, and the Presi- 

 dent are, however, good kinds, with very large 

 rose-coloured flowers, tinted with fawn. The new 

 yellow Tea Eose, the Golden Ball (La Boule d'Or), 

 scarcely deserves its name, for its buds are pointed, 

 and its flowers, when open, flat ; in colour it is of a 

 bright yellow, and, till we have a yellow rose in 

 shape like Grloire de Dijon, it will be cultivated. 

 Grloire de Bordeaux is a new variety with the 

 vigorous habit of the Bourbon Sir Joseph Paxton, 

 to which it bears some resemblance; its large, 

 coarse rose-coloured flowers are however very fra- 

 grant, and the variety is well calculated for training 

 to walls. Madame Falcot, like Safrano, but deeper 

 in its beautiful fawn-colour, and giving flowers more 

 double, is a charming variety. Comtesse OuvarofF 

 and TriomphedeGuillot, the former rose-coloured, 

 the latter pale flesh, nearly white, shaded with rose 

 and salmon is a fine and distinct rose, remarkably 

 fragrant. 



