50 KOSES THAT BLOOM IN JUNE. 



gives satisfaction, Avith its pale cherry-coloured floAvers, 

 which are large and perfectly formed. Belle .'Jmabile^ 

 dark shaded red, always large and attractive, with 

 bold full petals, and contrasts well with the shaded 

 pink flowers of Bishop. Champion has very bright 

 red flowers, full and perfect, blooming most freely. 

 Carmen Brilliant is well and expressively named. 

 It would facilitate the love of flowers to a great degree 

 if their names were ahva^'s expressive of colour or 

 character; but the title is often all the quality the 

 article can boast of. Chardon Bleu, or, in other 

 words. Blue Thistle; such a name for a dark slatey 

 shaded crimson rose, is pre]:Obterous ; yet so it is. 

 Bvjfon, very dark violet crimson, laige and fne. 

 Coronation is very brilliant, nearly approaching scar- 

 let; it has bold full petals, is a profuse bloomer, and 

 perfectly formed. Due de Choiseul is a very distinct 

 article, flowers freely, double. It is well form.ed, of 

 a pale rose colour, with a deep carmine centre. 

 Elernensie is another very distinct variety, with large 

 expanded flowers of a rosy crimson colour, growing 

 and blooming freely. Eliza is a large blush, finely 

 cupped, and a late bloomer. Eliza Ltker is a beau- 

 tiful pale rose, frequently a little marbled, but so 

 very indistinctly that it must have been fancy in him 

 who described it as such. Eclat des Roses ; there are 

 several roses cultivated under this loud name ; the one 



