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worthy he attention of the amateur. Mansais is 

 a rose in colour something like Noisette Jaune 

 Desprez, but not constantly so; this is a fine 

 rose, but I cannot yet pronounce whether it is 

 hardy or otherwise.* Odoratissima is a very free- 

 growing and pretty lilac rose, more than ordi- 

 narily fragrant, and apparently very hardy. Pa- 

 lavicini has been much admired and also much 

 depreciated, owing to the different appearances it 

 has taken under cultivation. On its own roots, 

 and in a weak state, it is poor and insignificant, 

 looking like a bad variety of the yellow China 

 Hose ; but when budded on a strong branch of 

 the Common China or the Blush Boursault, it will 

 bloom in a splendid manner, so as to appear quite 

 a different rose: a branch budded a few years 

 ago, and blooming very finely on the wall of the 

 council room at the Horticultural Society, at- 

 tracted much attention. I believe it is of Italian 

 origin, as many fine Tea-scented and China Roses 

 are raised from seed annually in Italy, but not 

 distributed. Princesse Marie is one of the finest 

 roses in this group. I saw this variety blooming 

 in Paris in June (1837), in greater perfection 

 than any other Tea Rose : its flowers were from 

 four to five inches in diameter. Pactolus is a 

 yellow rose, of a pale sulphur, approaching to a 

 bright yellow in the centre of the flower: this 



* This proves to be as hardy as the most robust of the Tea 

 Roses. 



