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Princesse Helene of the Luxembourg is also a fine 

 rose, of the same range of colour, with very large 

 globular flowers. Duchesse de Mecklenbourg is of 

 a more creamy yellow, and really a most beautiful 

 rose. Lutescens Grandiflora is one of the largest 

 of these yellow Tea Roses ; its flowers are cupped, 

 very large, and of deep yellow towards the centre 

 of the flower-cup. 



Belle Allemande may be described as a creamy 

 fawn-coloured rose. The blending of the colours 

 in these roses is difficult to describe ; this is also a 

 most magnificent rose, and apparently very hardy 

 and robust. Anteros or Antherose is also a new 

 rose of this range of colour, but often much paler 

 than Belle Allemande, depending upon climate 

 and situation ; it may generally be calculated that 

 Tea Roses are less vivid in our moist climate than 

 in France. Comte Osmond is a beautiful cream- 

 coloured rose, very double and perfect in its 

 flowers. 



In rose-coloured varieties we have two or three 

 very superb. Gigantesque, a Luxembourg Rose, 

 is one of the largest Tea Roses we possess, and 

 richly deserves its name. Bougere is a most sin- 

 gular and beautiful rose ; its flowers are of a fine 

 rose-colour, often slightly shaded with bronze, 

 and of first-rate form and quality. Mareschal 

 Vallee is also a rose-coloured Tea Rose, with 

 flowers very large and double ; this is a new and 

 first-rate variety. 



