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and for exhibition purposes are only to be 

 had in small quantities. Some voters did not 

 consider the Teas at all, confining their votes 

 to hardy varieties, doing this on account of 

 the radical differences which exist between 

 the two classes-. This has an important bear- 

 ing in estimating the comparative standing 

 of the various growers ; thus, Ducher's/tfrte 

 has been the production of fine Tea Roses, 

 and this last list does not give him his just 

 position. We must consider it therefore 

 from the standpoint of hardy exhibition vari- 

 eties; in doing this, we find an interesting 

 impartial comparison. Seven raisers named 

 in our list find no representation in the elec- 

 tion list, these are Sprunt, Nabonnand, Le- 

 dechaux, Charles Verdier, Vigneron, Mar- 

 gottin fils, and Oger. We believe our own 

 list to represent more correctly the compara- 

 tive merit of the various producers of new 

 roses; but the latter, as has been said, is 

 certainly impartial, and is the more gladly 

 inserted, to show that we have no bias that 

 influenced us in our arrangement, 



