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for moist climates ; in warm and dry exposures, 

 their flowers will open freely. Clementine Seringe, 

 with flowers large as those of Brown's Superb 

 Blush, and with the same peculiar fragrance as 

 the cabbage rose, is a most superb variety; its 

 flowers are placed on stiff erect foot-stalks ; these 

 are of a fine rosy blush : as a forcing rose, this 

 is invaluable. Reine de la Guillotiere is a superb 

 brilliant crimson rose, which, not having opened 

 so freely as usual this wet season (1843), I should 

 not recommend for moist climates : this is a con- 

 stant autumnal bloomer, and a very fine rose. 

 Prince Albert, in 1842, was splendid everywhere; 

 but owing to the too abundant moisture of the 

 past season, scarcely any of its flowers have 

 opened. So much is this rose influenced by cli- 

 mate, that when I, last autumn, visited France, 

 the cultivators of roses would scarcely credit my 

 assertion that it did not in general open well in 

 England; they said it was impossible. When 

 flowering in perfection, it is really beautiful, its 

 flowers quite double, finely shaped, of a deep 

 crimson purple, and remarkably fragrant: as a 

 forcing rose, it is quite unrivalled. 



In a recent visit to Paris (Sept. 30. 1843), I 

 have had the pleasure of seeing a new rose of this 

 family, "gained" by M. LaiFay from seed, and 

 named La Reine ; one of the largest, most perfectly 

 shaped, and, in short, the most beautiful in its range 

 of colour, of any Hybrid Perpetual rose known. I 



