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dark roses which so excite and please our 

 senses by their charms and loveliness. This 

 family probably originated from the old hy- 

 brid China, Gloire des Rosomanes ; they are 

 moderately hardy, but less so than those of 

 the Baronne Prevost, Jules Margottin, and 

 La Reine types. The flowers are invariably 

 shades of red and crimson, generally highly 

 perfumed, freely produced in the spring, but 

 varying greatly as to their autumnal bloom. 

 As a family, they are much more shy in the 

 autumn than any of the others. It is now 

 the most numerous of the families, due to 

 the fact that popular taste inclines more to 

 crimson than to light-colored roses. Leading 

 varieties of this type are Beauty of Waltham, 

 Marie Baumann (moderate growth), Marie 

 Rady, Maurice Bernardin, Pierre Netting, 

 Xavier Olibo (dwarf growth), also Senateur 

 Vaisse, Charles Lefebvre, Prince Camille, 

 Alfred Colomb, and Duke of Edinburgh. 

 About the latter varieties cluster numerous 

 others of the family of less importance. 



The head of the Victor Verdier type origi- 

 nated with the greatest of all the raisers, 

 Lacharme, of Lyons, and was sent out by 

 him in 1852. It is doubtless from one of the 

 La Reine type, crossed with some monthly 

 rose, probably a Bourbon. The descendants 

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