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but yet in an incipient state ; witliin a few years 

 it is likely there will be a great number of varie- 

 ties where now there are but few ; it is also to 

 be expected that there will be various and dis- 

 tinct types among them. Indeed among those 

 we already have, La France, Cheshunt Hybrid, 

 and Beauty of Stapleford show almost as mark- 

 ed variations as could be found among any 

 Hybrid Perpetuals. In these three, we have La 

 France, which, with a perfume peculiar to itself, 

 is the sweetest of all roses, and equal to any in 

 the profusion of bloom ; Cheshunt Hybrid, which 

 shows the Tea blood in its foliage more than in 

 any other way ; what fragrance it has is more 

 like that of Alfred Colomb or Prince Camille 

 than like a Tea ; it seldom shows a flower after 

 the first of August ; and Beauty of Stapleford, 

 entirely without scent, but with a decided resem- 

 blance to the Teas in fohage, appearance of the 

 flowers, and profusion of bloom. These roses 

 must prove more hardy than most of the Teas, 

 but more susceptible to frost and of more deli- 

 cate constitution than the majority of the Hybrid 

 Remontants. Certain ones among them, as La 

 France, Duchess of Connaught, and Viscountess 



