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foliage very large, and the plant quite strong. 

 Emilie Courtier, does not appear to open freely 

 till after July, when it shows its fine rose coloured 

 fragrant flowers in great perfection. Fedora, is 

 one of the new crimson varieties, perfectly double, 

 a strong grower, and will yet prove to be a fine 

 pillar rose. General Dubourg, when well grown, 

 produces its large pale rose coloured flowers in 

 great clusters, highly fragrant, giving a profuse 

 autumnal blooming; it is a strong grower, and 

 makes a fine pillar variety. Gloire de Rosaniene, 

 for profusion of bloom from June till severe frost, 

 has not an equal; the flowers are nearly bright 

 scarlet, produced in large clusters, but are not fully 

 double, of rampant growth, making a fine pillar 

 plant, very conspicuous in the distance, clothed 

 with large foliage from bottom to top. Grand 

 Capitaine, has produced quite an excitement 

 among rose growers ; very few plants of it ever 

 having as yet come to this country, it has given an 

 opportunity to some to supply the demand with 

 other varieties under this denomination, not think- 

 ing, with the poet, that there was "nothing in a 

 name." It is a bright crimson, perfectly double, 

 globular form, foliage deeply serrated, wood of 

 short firm growth, with few prickles. Hennequin, 

 in growth, is much stronger than Madam Desprez, 

 and very much of its habit, flowering in immense 



