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coloring, silvery-pink, tinged with salmon, 

 and Charles Lefebvre, which is beautiful in 

 both flower and leaf, the color of General 

 Jacqueminot deepened by a shade of satiny- 

 purple. Among the roses not sufficiently 

 well known are Marguerite de St. Amande, a 

 deep pink sort, which gives beautiful buds 

 as well as fine flowers, and blossoms through 

 the summer and autumn months ; Baroness 

 Rothschild, a blush-pink, with exquisite cup- 

 shaped flowers freely produced; Francois 

 Michelon, a striking variety, intermediate in 

 character between its parent La Reine and 

 General Jacqueminot, thus uniting two rival 

 dynasties. It has large, deep rose-colored 

 flowers, veined with lilac, and is of splendid 

 globular form. It blooms late, the flowers 

 not developing until most others of the same 

 class are past their prime. Eliza Boelle is, 

 perhaps, the best white rose that we have. 

 It blooms profusely all through the summer 

 months; the flowers are full, of the most 

 perfect, globular form, the centre generally 

 tinged with blush. It is not possible to 

 imagine a flower of greater beauty. The 

 best of the moss-roses are Gracilis, Common, 

 and Crested. Not the least of the qualities 

 we desire in a rose is fragrance. In this re- 

 gard, all varieties of all classes must do 



