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rose, of the most perfect form for a show rose. 

 It seldom produces deformed or ill-shaped flowers; 

 the plant is also of the most vigorous habit. To 

 Fanny Parissot this description may also be ap- 

 plied, only that its colour is much more delicate. 

 Fanny Bias is a name also given to this rose. 

 Fanny Elsler is a new and pretty spotted rose, 

 but it has not yet bloomed here in perfection. 

 Fleur d' Amour is one of the most vivid-coloured 

 roses in this group, much like Assemblage des 

 Beautes, but more double. Grandissima is a most 

 robust-growing and very large rose, likely to 

 prove a show rose of first-rate excellence. The 

 King of Rome, or Theodore de Corse (for they 

 are one and the same), is a beautiful double and 

 compact rose, so exactly like a double ranunculus 

 that it might almost be mistaken for one. Leo- 

 pold is a fine dark rose, much like that old favou- 

 rite the Tuscany Rose, but with smaller and more 

 double flowers. 



La Capricieuse is indeed capricious, for some 

 of its flowers are plain, and some most beautifully 

 pencilled with white ; which, on the vivid rose- 

 coloured ground of this rose, has a pretty effect. 

 La Moskowa is a large dark rose, not quite 

 double enough for a show rose, but its flowers 

 have a fine effect on the plant. Lafayette is a 

 pencilled rose, quite different from the generality 

 of these roses, and much like Rationale Tricolore. 

 It is shaded with purple and crimson, and varies 



