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coloured variety, blooming in large clusters, is 

 equally beautiful and quite first-rate. Pucelle 

 Genoise also is a fine large and double rose, appa- 

 rently a hybrid of the China Rose, as its foliage 

 approaches it in resemblance. Bouquet de Flore, 

 and Emile Courtier, are true Bourbons, and most 

 perfect and beautiful varieties, with large and 

 double flowers of a deep rose-colour. 



Among the novelties in Bourbon Hoses, one of 

 the most remarkable is Madame Lacharme, a 

 rose raised at Lyons, and named after the wife of 

 a rose cultivator there ; this may with justice be 

 called White Madame Desprez; it produces its 

 beautiful white flowers, the outer petals of which 

 are slightly tinged with blush, in large clusters, 

 and has the same robust habit as that above fine 

 and well-known rose ; this will undoubtedly be a 

 most popular variety ; in fine contrast to the above 

 are two new dark crimson Bourbons, Proserpine, 

 and Paul Joseph, these are both of robust and 

 luxuriant growth, producing their flowers on erect 

 foot-stalks; foliage large, thick, and of a deep 

 glossy green, flowers of the most brilliant crimson, 

 slightly shaded with purple ; the latter is possibly 

 the darker of the two ; but it is really difficult to 

 say which one would prefer. Cornice de Seine 

 et Marne is also a new variety, with flowers of 

 the most brilliant crimson, not quite so deep in 

 colour as the before-mentioned, and not tinted 

 with purple ; this is a most splendid rose. Enfant 



