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To Perpetual Roses some valuable additions 

 have been made, chiefly of Hybrid Bourbons, 

 which partaking of the fragrance and hardiness of 

 the Damask rose, are very desirable, as well as 

 from their blooming so abundantly in the autumn. 

 These roses are termed " Hybrid Perpetuals " in 

 some catalogues. Clementine Duval is a very 

 pretty pale rose-coloured variety of this class, of 

 compact growth, and giving abundance of flowers. 

 General Merlin, of the same origin, also raised by 

 Monsieur Duval, is quite a new variety, with 

 rose-coloured flowers/ rather bright, and elegantly 

 shaped. Queen Victoria is of a very deep reddish 

 rose, tinged with purple : this is a fine and robust 

 rose. Fulgorie, like the above, is also a hybrid 

 Bourbon, with flowers of a deep purplish crimson, 

 very double and perfect, blooming freely all the 

 autumn, and growing most luxuriantly. This is 

 certainly one of the best roses of its class and 

 colour. Marshal Soult is a robust and free- 

 growing rose, but rather dull in colour when 

 compared with Fulgorie. Princesse Helene is 

 also a robust and free-growing deep rose-coloured 

 rose: in moist weather, and sometimes in autumn, 

 its flowers do not open freely. Coquette de Mont- 

 morency, a bright red rose, is one of the most de- 

 lightful varieties yet introduced : its growth is so 

 compact, and its flowers are produced in such abun- 

 dance, always opening freely, and always elegantly 

 shaped, that it cannot be too much recommended. 



