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ble where a full collection is grown, although it 

 must be confessed that there exists, in this tribe, 

 great confusion in regard to name, and there are 

 many instances of the same article passing under 

 different names in different collections. Some of 

 these errors have originated in this country, unin- 

 tentionally, I presume ; others have been committed 

 in France, in sending out the article not true to 

 name. It must also be conceded that our English 

 brethren have their full share in these practices; 

 and with their host of synonymes (to give them 

 no harsher name) completely blindfold us. Under 

 their " Crimson Globe" we discovered our friend 

 " Dr. Roques ;" and under their crimson " Madam 

 Desprez," or Splendens," we think we see our 

 " Hennequin ;" at all events, it is not the rose 

 cultivated in France under the name of " Splen- 

 dens." I have repeatedly imported it, and it 

 always proved to be the same, a very inferior 

 variety, with bright pink flowers, not in the least 

 deserving a name among the truly splendid ones of 

 the present day. There are also some recent ad- 

 ditions, only known by name, with whose colour 

 and character we have yet to be acquainted. /^The 

 Bourbons, generally, make fine standard plants, 

 either on low or high stems ; as they are nearly all 

 of strong growth, and produce a constant succes- 

 sion of bloom the whole season, they require to be 

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