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Beauharnais must both be mentioned, as they are 

 so often confounded: the first is a most robust 

 grower, producing in large clusters flowers not 

 very double, of a delicate pink ; the latter has 

 large globular flowers, very double, white, tinted 

 with rosy buff. La Seduisante is most appro- 

 priately named ; it is not a new variety, but a rose 

 most perfect in shape and beautiful in colour. 

 Madame Campan is a hybrid departing a little 

 from the characters of the species, but producing 

 flowers of a bright rose finely mottled with white, 

 of first-rate excellence. Princesse de Lamballe is 

 one of the finest in this division, possessing all the 

 characters of the species in its foliage, branches 

 and flowers : these are of the purest white, and of 

 the most perfect and beautiful shape. Queen of 

 Denmark, an old but estimable variety, produces 

 flowers of first-rate excellence as prize-flowers: 

 so much was this esteemed when first raised from 

 seed, that plants were sent from Germany to this 

 country at five guineas each. Sophie de Marsilly, 

 a new variety is a most delicate and beautiful 

 mottled rose, with flowers very double and perfect 

 in shape. Viridis is the far-famed green rose of 

 France, which has several times been brought to 

 this country and sold as a great rarity: it is 

 curious, for its flowers are nearly green till fully 

 expanded. 



The varieties of this family form a, beautiful 

 mass, not by any means gay and dazzling but 



