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2. Semi-double White Rose. 

 Virgin Rose. 



Flowers, semi-double, middle-sized; white, fragrant. 



3. Pearl of France. 



Shrub, having its wood and foliage of a yellow green. 

 Leaves, much toothed. 



Flowers, saddle-sized, double ; white, having the shape 

 of the Hundred-leaved. 



4. La Vestale. 



Shrub, armed with strong crooked thorns ; no bristles. 



Tube of calyx, oval, smooth. 



Flowers, double, middle-sized ; white, cup-shaped. 



5. Ornement des Vierges. 

 Charlotte. 



Branches, almost unarmed. 



Leaflets, deeply and sharply toothed. 



Sepals, longer than the petals. 



Flowers, middle-sized or small, semi-double ; white. 



6. La Surprise. 



Shrub, unarmed ; mahogany-coloured wood. 

 Flowers, small, very double ; of a pure white. 

 Obtained at Mans, 1823. 



7. Rose Sorribreuil. 



Tube of calyx, hispid, glandulous, oval-turbinated. 

 Flowers, full, middle-sized; rather flesh-coloured in 

 expanding ; afterwards white. 



8. Jeune Bcrgere. 



Flowers, very pretty and well formed, double ; white, 

 slightly flesh-coloured. 



9. Celeste Blanche. 

 Tube of calyx, oval. 



Flowers, full, middle-sized ; white. 



