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hybrid with very double pure white flowers. Ade- 

 laide, a large red rose, double, and a good variety, 

 Blanda is one of the best of the numerous marbled 

 Scotch roses, as these are generally much alike. 

 Countess of Glasgow, Daphne, Erebus, and Flora, 

 are all good vivid-coloured dark roses, varying in 

 their shades, and very pretty. Guy Mannering is 

 a large and very double blush rose, distinct and 

 good. La Cenomane is a French hybrid, pure 

 white, with large and very double flowers ; a beau- 

 tiful rose, but not so robust as the pure Scotch 

 varieties. La Neige is deserving of its name, for 

 it is of the purest white, and very double and good. 

 Lady Baillie, Marchioness of Lansdowne, and 

 Mrs. Hay, are all pretty, pale sulphur-coloured 

 roses : from the seed of these it is very probable 

 that some good yellow varieties may, at some 

 future time, be raised. 



Painted Lady is a French hybrid; white, 

 striped with red, but rather inconstant, as its 

 flowers are often pure white : when it blooms in 

 character, it is a charming little rose. Princess 

 Elizabeth and the Queen of May are both bright 

 pink varieties, very distinct and pretty. The True 

 Yellow is a hybrid raised in France, and in most 

 seasons is a pretty sulphur-coloured rose, much 

 admired; but in very hot weather it fades very 

 soon to. white : this was the case more particularly 

 this summer (1837); it seemed much influenced, 

 in common with the other Scotch roses, by the 



