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Romaine Desprez is a beautiful and very double 

 and large rose, finely shaped, of robust habit, dis- 

 tinct, and calculated to make a popular variety. 

 Reine de Paestum approaches the Tea Rose in 

 habit and scent ; its petals are too thin and flaccid 

 to bear exposure to our summer and autumnal 

 showers. Sulphurea superba is a fine and very 

 double variety of the yellow Chinese or Tea 

 Rose : its flowers are large, rather flat, and quite 

 unique. Triomphe de Gand is a shaded rose 

 of very robust growth, forming a fine standard. 

 Triomphante, Paeony, Noisette, Indica superba, 

 La Superbe, or Grande et Belle, for like all very 

 good and old roses it has several names, is a fine 

 and distinct variety, erect and robust in its 

 growth, and forming a fine standard; an entire 

 clump of this rose, with its large, shaded, crimson 

 flowers, would have a fine effect. 



New China Roses are raised with such facility in 

 France that it is difficult to cultivate and describe 

 all that are introduced. In list No. II. I have 

 given the new and most desirable varieties, but to 

 a few I ought to give a word or two of praise. 



As a white China Rose, Clara Sylvain is quite 

 unequalled ; it grows so freely, its flowers are so 

 globular, and it gives them in such abundance, 

 that it must be a favourite. Miellez is pretty 

 from its erect clusters of flowers, something like 

 Aimee Vibert Noisette ; but they are not double 

 enough to compete with Clara Sylvain. Belle 

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