ROSES THAT BLOOM IN JUNE. 51 



beforj us is a large bright rose, edged with blush, 

 with bold and perfect petals, and always very double. 

 Fanny Bias, or Fanny Parissot, is a great favourite 

 and has few compeers. Ever}' one admires it; the 

 colour is also scarce in the family, being pale blush 

 shading to bright pink towards the centre. It is 

 extremely double, and is greatly to be admired for its 

 symmetry; it is a free bloomer. Gloire des Jardins 

 is a large bright red, fully imbricated, and always 

 perfectly double. Hortense Beauharnais, though de- 

 scribed as Rose vif Ponctuee, is not worthy of that 

 distinction ; these faint spots seen in it after close 

 inspection, are too faint to be deserving of notice. 

 Hercules^ if it had not another quality besides its 

 delicious fragrance, should be in every garden. Its 

 tlowers are large, and bright red, expanding freely 

 and fully double. Isabel and Prolifere are the same; 

 very double pink, in clusters and in great profusion ; 

 one mass of pretty pink (lowers. Juliana is also a 

 pretty perfectly double pinkish red, one of those 

 colours that the eye delights to rest upon. King of 

 Rome, Ponceau Parfait, and Theodore de Crose ; this 

 very fine and perfect rose, like many others of first 

 quality, has a plurality of names, and if it should 

 have as many more, they will not darken its bright 

 red colour, nor disarrange its very perfect form. La 

 Favorite is a bright cherry red, of good habit. La 



