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GARDEN CLASSIFICATION. 



Chromatella, N., is a truly magnificent and splendid rose, 

 raised at Angers (France), from Lamarque ; and, as bloomed in 

 our vinery and grounds, is fully equal to our engraving. It is of 

 robust habit, and its luxuriant shoots would make it a fine pillar 

 rose. Its leaves are large and glossy, with a beautiful, rich pur- 

 ple edge when young., The bud is of a rich cream color, but 

 when the large globular flower is fully expanded, its color is a 

 brilliant and beautiful yellow, with petals whose thickness will 

 endure the hottest sun without fading. When the plant is young, 

 it is rather a shy bloomer, but when of some age and in a good 

 soil and location, nothing can exceed the magnificence of its 

 superb flowers. In our grounds it has endured our coldest win- 

 ters, but it would be safest to protect it. 



Clara Sylvain is one of the best white roses of the old 

 China class. It grows very freely, and gives its globular, pure 

 white and fragrant flowers in the greatest abundance. 



Clarissa Harlowe, N., is a fine cluster-flowering variety, 

 with very large and double flowers, of a pale blush color. Its 

 vigorous and luxuriant growth adapts it well for pillars. 



Comte de Paris, T., is a superb cupped and tea-scented 

 rose, whose magnificent size and hardy, robust nature fully com- 

 pensate for its deficiency of petals, when fully expanded. Its 

 foliage is large, its growth is very luxuriant, and its flowers of a 

 pale rose color. 



CoMTE Osmond, T., is a new and fine rose, with very double 

 flowers, of a beautiful cream color. 



Daily Blush is one of the oldest China Roses, but one of the 

 very best. There can be nothing more perfect than its half- 

 expanded bud, of a light crimson, inclining to blush. It com- 

 mences blooming among the earliest, and, if the old seed-vessels 

 are picked oflf, will continue to bloom abundantly through the 

 summer and autumn, even after severe frosts. It is one of the 

 hardiest of the class, and if left in this latitude unprotected dur- 

 ing the winter, will lose no more wood than it will be necessary 

 to cut out in the spring. It grows freely, and making a stifle, up- 

 right bush, would be well adapted for a hedge — the winter per- 



