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and character. Hybride blanche is a hybrid Noi- 

 sette blooming in clusters, and a pretty neat white 

 rose a little tinged with rose colour. Hypocrate 

 is a most superb variety, one of the finest of its 

 class, and well adapted for a show-rose : this 

 is not the Hypocrate of many catalogues, or 

 of the French cultivators, which is a hybrid 

 Bourbon, an inferior variety. The King of 

 Koses, or Saudeur panachee, is a rarity among 

 hybrids, for it is finely striped, and as yet so few 

 variegated roses are in this class : till these few 

 last seasons never has it bloomed in perfection, 

 or in fact scarcely at all, owing to its having been 

 pruned too much : like some few others mentioned, 

 its branches may be thinned, but scarcely at all 

 shortened : this rose will form a fine pillar, and a 

 standard of the largest size, as it grows with ex- 

 traordinary luxuriance and vigour. Legouve is 

 a hybrid Bourbon rose, and quite first-rate in 

 form and colour: this may be grown for a prize 

 or show-rose. Lady Stuart, like the Duke of 

 Devonshire, is a gem of the first water, for no 

 rose can surpass it in beauty; the form of the 

 flowers before expansion is perfectly spherical, 

 and exceedingly beautiful. This rose, for some 

 years to come, must and will be a favourite. La 

 Grandeur is, perhaps, nearly as much to be ad- 

 mired, but for qualities quite opposite, as this is 

 when quite open an imbricated rose, exceedingly 

 regular and pleasing in its form. Las Casas is a 



