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variable according to the season, but their prevail- 

 ing colour is as described. Budded on stout stocks 

 of the dog-rose, this variety will form a large 

 umbrageous tree *, it will form also a fine pillar 

 rose, and as a bush budded on a two-feet stem, so 

 that the whole plant is taken at once by the eye : 

 it will give a magnificent mass of flowers at one 

 view. Hortense Leroy is also a most elegant and 

 beautiful rose ; foliage small, glossy, and distinct, 

 flowers very perfect and double, colour pale rose. 

 Ernest Ferray and Elise Merco3ur are most ro- 

 bust-growing and beautiful roses. Richelieu 

 (Duval) is perfectly beautiful in its flowers, but 

 its habit is meagre, and unlike all others of this 

 generally robust family. Dombrowski and Syl- 

 vain are two most beautiful brilliant roses, deep 

 in colour, and well worthy a place in the group. 

 The first is occasionally almost scarlet, and, like 

 all these hybrid Bourbons, has thick leathery 

 petals ; the second is a perfect and fine rose, of a 

 brilliant crimson. A bed of roses of this family, 

 on stems of one to two feet in height, will form 

 one of the most ornamental groups in the rose- 

 garden. 



With but few exceptions hybrid China roses 

 may be cultivated as standards to advantage, as 

 their growth is luxuriant and umbrageous, some 

 of the most robust-growing varieties forming im- 



* In the " Rose Garden, No. 5," Gardeners' Chronicle for 

 1843, p. 356, I have described this rose and its peculiar habit. 

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