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and superior varieties. Antonine d'Ormois is a 

 fine free-growing variety, with flowers large, of 

 the most perfect shape ; colour a delicate blush. 

 Cerise superbe is one of the most brilliant in co- 

 lour in this class ; its flowers approach to scarlet ; 

 they are quite double, and in shape perfectly 

 beautiful. Columella is also a rose deserving a 

 high eulogium. Generally its flowers are of a 

 bright pink, beautifully shaded on their margins, 

 with blush ; occasionally it produces self-coloured 

 flowers, but is always a first-rate and remarkably 

 distinct variety. Kean is now become a well- 

 known rose, remarkable for its constancy, for it is 

 always beautiful ; in size it is first-rate, in shape 

 quite perfection; colour bright reddish crimson, 

 in some seasons approaching to scarlet. Latour 

 d'Auvergne is another of these most perfect roses, 

 worthy of a place in every rose-garden; colour 

 deep crimson, habit most robust and vigorous. 

 Letitia, of a beautiful veined deep rose-colour, is 

 equally valuable as a show rose, for in all seasons 

 it is invariably perfect in shape. Shakspere is a 

 fine shaded rose; in most seasons this beautiful 

 variety shows a brilliant red centre, having a 

 charming effect. Schombrunn and Triomphe de 

 Jaussens are also brilliant crimson roses, quite 

 perfect in shape, and most constant and beautiful. 

 There are yet many other self-coloured roses in 

 this family, of equal beauty, but of which it is 

 impossible to give descriptions without a sameness 



