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variety. Comtesse Orloff is a bright rosy pink, 

 and makes a good plant for covering fences, pillars, 

 &c., being a rapid grower and free bloomer ; the 

 flowers are rather small in proportion to the 

 growth of the plant. Conque de Venus is now 

 an old variety, but not often excelled in fragrance 

 and profusion ; the flowers are perfectly double, 

 creamy white, and with a bright pink centre ; they 

 are produced in large clusters and in great pro- 

 fusion. Cora L. Barton has no compeer, com- 

 bining size and colour; it is a seedling from La- 

 marque, grown by me a few years ago; the flowers 

 are of a clear rosy pink, very large, fragrant, double, 

 and cup shaped; a profuse bloomer, of strong habit, 

 and makes a splendid pillar. Du Luxembourg is 

 not hardy enough for this latitude, but bears full 

 exposure in the south, where it shows its beautiful 

 rosy purple flowers in great splendour ; it is very 

 sweet scented, of good growth, a free bloomer, per- 

 fectly double, and very distinct. Euphrosine; this 

 new and very sweet scented rose was first intro- 

 duced as a " Tea," but after trial proves to be a 

 Noisette of great excellence, both in its peculiar 

 rosy buff coloured flowers, which it produces in 

 extravagant profusion, arid in its peculiarly grate- 

 ful fragrance ; the flowers are quite double, above 

 medium size, and the plant grows freely. It is yet 

 very scarce. Eugene Pirolle, or Admiral de 



