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Madame d'Arblay is a truly gigantic hybrid climber, per- 

 fectly hardy, and with strong, Bourbon-like foliage. It blooms 

 in large clusters of pure white flowers, and is a truly excellent 

 variety. 



Melanie de Montjoie is an Evergreen Rose of much beauty. 

 Its abundant and glossy dark-green foliage contrasts beautifully 

 with its large pure white flowers. 



Myrianthes is one of the most beautiful of the Evergreen 

 Roses. Its flowers are most perfectly shaped, and of a very deli- 

 cate rose color. 



Queen of the Prairies is a most superb variety of the 

 Riibifolia or Michigan Rose. The double varieties of the origi- 

 nal Michigan Rose have nearly all been produced by Samuel 

 Feast, of Baltimore, while a few new varieties owe their origin 

 to Joshua Pierce, of Washington. They are remarkable for 

 their perfectly hardy nature, braving equally well the frosts of 

 Canada or the heat of Louisiana. The leaves are large, rather 

 rough, and of a rich dark-green. They grow with unexampled 

 rapidity, exceeding in this respect any of the climbing roses, and 

 would cover old buildings or naked ground in a very short space 

 of time. They bloom after the other summer roses are mostly 

 gone, and produce their flowers abundantly in large clusters of 

 diflferent shades, from the pale delicate blush of Superba to the 

 rich deep rose of Q,ueen of the Prairies. 



This last is the best, and of the most luxuriant growth. Its 

 large flowers are of a peculiar cupped form, almost globular, when 

 in bud, and altogether of very perfect shape. They are of deep 

 rose color, with a white stripe in the centre of each petal. This 

 rose is truly superb, and, for our cold winters and hot sun, an 

 unequaled cUmber. It would be a fine rose to cover a trellis or 

 building, and then bud into its branches a dozen different Re- 

 montant or Bourbon Roses of various colors. The tout en- 

 semble would be superb. 



Superba is the best pale colored rose of the same class. Its 

 very double flowers are smaller than the preceding, but are very 

 perfectly cupped and of a delicate blush color, almost white. Its 



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