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seeds gathered and sown here. Hybrid French : Comtesse 

 de Segur. Hybrid Chinese, &c.: General Lamoriciere, 

 Paul Ricaut, Vivid (also raised here). Hybrid Perpetual: 

 Alexandrine Bachmeteff, Angelina Granger, Auguste Mie, 

 Baronne Hallez, Baronne de Heckeren, Caroline de Sansal, 

 Comte de Nanteuil, Duchesse d'Orleans, Enfant du Mont 

 Carmel, General Bedeau, General Brea, General Castellane, 

 Graziella, Joan of Arc, Lady Stuart, Laura Ramand, 

 Lion des Combats, Louise Peyronny, Madame Duchere, 

 Madame Phelip, Madame Rivers, Noemi, Paul Dupuy, 

 Prince Leon, Rosine Margottin, Souvenir de Leveson 

 Gower, Standard of Marengo, Triomphe de Paris, William 

 Griffiths, Louise Odier. Tea- Scented: Canary, Madame 

 Villermoz, Narcisse. Bourbon: Dr Leprestre, Prince Albert 

 (Paul's), Reveil, Sir J. Paxton, Souvenir d'un Frere, 

 Vorace. 



Here are forty-eight really valuable varieties introduced 

 in five years, and I would ask what would our Rose gardens 

 of the present day be without them ? So good are they 

 that they have become " familiar in our mouths as house- 

 hold words." And I believe there are as good New Roses 

 being gradually introduced now as then, although accom- 

 panied as then with shoals of rubbish. 



It is very pretty to talk of fine crimson Tea Roses, 

 yellow Hybrid Perpetuals, and yellow Moss, but how are 

 we to obtain them? It sounds like the echo of some 

 nursery rhyme. Nature does not advance by leaps. I do 

 not, however, say they will never be obtained, but they 

 have been a desideratum long thought of and asked for, 

 and their long absence proves satisfactorily to my mind 

 that the most skilled in these mysteries yet lack the 

 knowledge or means of obtaining them. Is it then wise 

 to reject the good things provided because we cannot at 

 once realise some visionary desires ? 



The question of large and small collections I will, if 

 you think proper, discuss next week. 



