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it is yet very desirable for its distinctive character, 

 and being in bloom before any other of the group. 

 Rei?ie Victoria approaches Melville ; though not of so 

 bright a colour it is fully as strong in habit, but the 

 foliage not so deeply serrated. Roman, pale lemon 

 white, large flower, fully double. Safrano, when the 

 bud opens in the morning, is a fine saffron or dark 

 orange colour, and is beautiful ; in the forenoon it is 

 blush and in the afternoon a very poor white not 

 worth notice, and unless you see it pass through these 

 changes, 3'ou could scarcely believe il to be the same 

 rose. Souvenir (Tun Ami, pale rose, large flower, 

 fully double. Stromhio cannot be too well known ; 

 though an old variety, it holds its place, with its large 

 pendulous rosy-white flowers, perfectly formed of a 

 cup shape, and in profusion. It is also a luxuriant 

 grower, and withstands our winters without protec- 

 tion. Taglioni is a large rose, of a fine white incli- 

 ning to pink towards the centre; a hardy strong vari- 

 ety. Thehe, with every character of a Bengal rose, 

 has the odour of the Tea very strong, and is put in 

 this tribe on that account only ; it is of a bright rosy- 

 red colour, of rather dwarf habit, flowers profusely, 

 and quite double. Triomphe du Luxembourg ; per- 

 haps there is not a rose mentioned in this little volume 

 that has been so universally distributed over the floral 

 world in the space of thirteen years, as this celebra- 



