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pink, very double, and crowded with bloom. Im- 

 perial, a large blush flower, rather loose, but a very 

 distinct sort. La Folie de Corse, bright rose, large 

 and perfectly double. Leda is perhaps not a true 

 Damask, but a very distinct and pretty variety, 

 with white flowers edged with pink, "blanche 

 bordee de rose." La Ville de. Bruxelles is very 

 double, of a bright rose colour, with strong foliage. 

 Mathilde de Mondeville is one of the sweetest of 

 roses, of a delicate rosy lilac fading to blush, and 

 blooms profusely. Painted Damask, in some soils 

 may be such, but in my loamy soil it is always 

 rose coloured, and not so well painted as the old 

 York and Lancaster, which is often striped, and 

 frequently one half pink and the other half white, 

 carrying out the tradition, that on the extinction of 

 the feud between the houses of York and Lancaster, 

 this rose sprung up, with the one side pink and the 

 other white. Monthly Damask is a bright pink, 

 blooming in clusters and repeatedly during the sea- 

 son if in rich ground, and is a general favourite. 

 White Monthly Damask is not such a free bloomer 

 as the former; these bear seed freely, and have 

 been the parents of many of the roses known as 

 Perpetuals. In pruning give them the same treat- 

 ment as directed for the Provins and Gallica roses. 

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