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given of it, and has proved of free growth, with splendid foliage, sweet as the 

 Provence, and hardy as the Dog-Rose. 



During the succeeding eight years, down to the Autumn of 1869, the same rule 

 obtained, in proof of which I need only instance the following introductions : 

 John Hopper, Madame Alfred de Rougemont, Baron Adolphe de Rothschild, Lord 

 Macaulay, Lord Clyde, Camille Bernardin, La Duchesse de Morny, Madame Victor 

 Verdier, Pierre Netting, Princess of Wales, Marie Baumann, Xavier Olibo, Michel 

 Bonnet, Dr Andry, Duke of Wellington, Duchesse de Caylus, Marguerite de St 

 Amand, Comte de Raimbaud, Elizabeth Vigneron, Black Prince, Lady Suffield, 

 Alfred Colomb, Fisher Holmes, Prince de Portia, Mdlle. Marie Rady, Horace Vernet, 

 Antoine Ducher, Mdlle. Annie Wood, Monsieur Noman, Souvenir de Monsieur Boll, 

 Dupuy Jamairi, Elie Morel, Baronne de Rothschild, La France, Boule de Neige, 

 Madame Noman, Duke of Edinburgh, Reve d'Or, Perfection de Lyon, Marquise de 

 Mortemarte, Edouard Morren, Mdlle. Eugenie Verdier, Countess of Oxford, Catherine 

 Mermet, Paul Neyron, Marquise de Castellane, Louis van Houtte, Abel Grand, Mdlle. 

 Therese Levet, Alba Rosea, Madame Charles, Marechal Niel, Climbing Devoniensis, 

 Madame Margottin, Monsieur Furtado, Madame Ducher, Belle Lyonnaise, Madame 

 Levet. Time the avenger has thus fully proved the position I then took up, " that 

 every year brings forth some novelties worth adding to our collections." 



The Autumn of 1870 gave us but few new Roses. France, engaged in a struggle 

 of life and death, had neither heart nor time for things like these. Fourteen 

 varieties only from that country reached my hands, of which Coquette de Lyon, 

 and Madame Emile Dupuy (Tea-scented) seemed the most noteworthy. 



The Autumn of 1871 brought us a richer freight. Among the best of this year 

 were HYBRID PERPETUALS : Abbe Bramerel, Auguste Rigotard, Baron de 

 Bonstetten, Coquette des Blanches, Etienne Levet, Francois Michelon, Le Havre, 

 Lyonnaise, Madame Hippolyte Jamain, Princess Beatrice, and Richard Wallace. 

 TEA-SCENTED : Comtesse de Nadaillac, Madame Camille, Madame Jules Margottin, 

 Madame Cecile Berthod, Marie Van Houtte, Perfection de Monplaisir, and Souvenir 

 de Paul Neyron. 



The following are among the best novelties of 1872. HYBRID PERPETUALS: 

 Bessie Johnson, Claude Levet, Firebrand, Madame Lacharme, Mdlle. Marie Cointet. 

 BOURBON PERPETUAL : Reine Victoria. TEA-SCENTED : Amazone, Anna Ollivier, 

 Madame Caroline Kuster, Perle de Lyon, and Vallee de Chamounix. 



Of the new varieties of 1873 I thought most favourably of the following. 

 HYBRID PERPETUALS : Captain Christy, Diana, Duchess of Edinburgh, Etienne 

 Dupuy, Marie Finger, Olga Marix, Peach Blossom, Perfection des Blanches, St 

 George, and Thomas Mills. I fear it would be tedious to my readers to continue this 

 list year by year. I shall therefore simply enumerate the best varieties that have 

 been introduced from' 1874 to the present time, giving a separate list at the end of 



