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portant bearing in estimating the comparative 

 standing of the various growers ; thus, Ducher's 

 forte has been the production of fine Tea Eoses, 

 and this last hst does not give him his just posi- 

 tion. We must consider it therefore from the 

 standpoint of hardy exhibition varieties ; in 

 doing this, we find an interesting impartial com- 

 parison. Seven raisers named in our hst find no 

 representation in the election list, these are 

 Sprunt, Nabonnand, Ledechaux, Charles Ver- 

 dier, Yigneron, Margottin fils, and Oger. We 

 believe our own list to represent more correctly 

 the comparative merit of the various producers 

 of new roses ; but the latter, as has been said, is 

 certainly impartial, and is the more gladly in- 

 serted, to show that we have no bias that influ- 

 enced us in our arrangement. 



