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flowers, growing freely; a plant in this vicinity is 

 twenty-fiTe feet high and fifteen wide. Mrs. Lane, 

 bright rose colour, flower above medium size, plant 

 of free growth. Madam JWumann^ Le Brun^ Gloire 

 de France, or the Monthly Cabbage, appear to be one 

 and the same rose. I have repeatedly gone from 

 plant to plant, and compared flower with flower, but 

 could come to no other conclusion; when Le Brun 

 appeared with so fine a character, about eight years 

 ago, I tried to persuade myself it was a new rose, but 

 in vain ; if they are not one and the same, they are at 

 least perfectly similar, producing fine large deep rose- 

 coloured flowers of exquisite fragrance, but do not 

 open well in the early part of the season, or during 

 wet weather ; they are of strong growth, requiring 

 very rich soil. Marechal de Villars is a very distinct 

 rose, with bright rosy-purple flowers, very compact, 

 blooming profusely in either wet or dry soils ; it is a 

 good grower, and will always reward the care be- 

 stowed upon it ; it will grow either as a bush or pillar 

 rose. J^adiska, bright rosy red, pretty colour, plant 

 of medium growth, blooming in clusters. Paul Joseph 

 is a scarce variety, of a brilliant crimson colour, rich 

 dark foliage. Pierre de St. Cyre, a very perfectly 

 formed pale rose-coloured flower, blooming profusely 

 in clusters, plant of strong habit. Phillipar is of 

 a beautiful peach-blossom colour; the plant grows 



