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smaller flowers, perhaps of a still deeper carmine. 

 The plant is dwarf, yet possesses all the characters 

 of the true Bourbon Eoses in the prominency of its 

 buds, and in its foliage. La Tendresse has flowers of 

 a silvery-pale rose-colour, very double and large. 

 Its habit is robust, hardy, and luxuriant, fit for 

 the centre of the rose bed. Latifolia is a fine 

 bold rose, much like Augustine Lelieur in its 

 colour and habit : a good rose, but not required in 

 a collection where that rose is grown. Madame 

 Desprez : this fine and robust rose has never yet 

 bloomed so beautifully in this country as during 

 this autumn (1837) : its large clusters of very 

 double flowers have indeed been superb. Monsieur 

 Desprez, a distinguished French rose amateur, 

 raised it from seed about five years since. It is, 

 most probably, a little hybridised with the Noi- 

 sette Eose, as it blooms in larger clusters than any 

 other Bourbon Eose. Marshal Villars approaches 

 to the China Eose in habit, which takes from it 

 that compact growth peculiar to most of the true 

 Bourbon Eoses : this has flowers of a bright purple 

 tinge, very vivid and double.* Phillippart, if not 

 the same as Augustine Lelieur, is too much like it 

 to be grown in the same collection. Psyche is 

 a very remarkable rose, a hybrid of humble 



* The flowers of this rose seldom open well ; a distinguished 

 rose amateur has expressively, but whimsically, named Bourbon 

 roses of this character "hard-heads." 



