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all my plants produced semi-double blush and 

 rose-coloured flowers ; the Blush Globe was the 

 only exception. 



Blanchefleur, with Cleliee, would possibly pro- 

 duce seed from which fine shaped and delicate- 

 coloured roses might be expected. The same with 

 the Tuscany rose would most likely originate deep 

 rose-coloured varieties, with finely-shaped cupped 

 flowers. 



HYBEID CHINA KOSES.) 



(ROSA INDICA HYBRIDA.) 



The superior varieties of this fine division give 

 SL combination of all that is or can be beautiful in 

 roses ; for, not only are their flowers of the most 

 elegant forms and colours, their foliage of extreme 

 luxuriance, but their branches are so vigorous and 

 graceful, that perhaps no plant presents such a 

 mass of beauty as a finely grown hybrid China 

 rose in full bloom. They owe their origin to the 

 China, Tea-scented Noisette and Bourbon roses, 

 fertilised with the French, Provence, and other 

 summer roses, and also to the latter crossed with 

 the former ; the seeds of such impregnated flowers 

 producing hybrid China roses. These have, in 

 many cases, resulted from accident, but latterly 

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