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this Rose will doubtless soon be well known, and in 

 my judgment it is not yet equalled for the combined 

 qualities of brilliancy, substance, form, vigour, sweetness, 

 and hardihood. Charles Lefebvre is certainly one of the 

 finest of that set, the flowers are crimson shaded with 

 maroon, intensely rich and glowing, of large size, good 

 substance, and perfect form. Due de Rohan is also a 

 first-class Rose of vigorous growth, with handsome foliage; 

 the flowers are large, full, and globular, in colour bright 

 vermilion. Francois Lacharme is a rich rosy-crimson 

 flower, large, full, and of good form, quite first-rate. La 

 Brillante is of the most exquisite colour when newly 

 expanded, but soon pales even without a sun ; it is of 

 good average size, perfectly cupped, and nearly full. 

 Louise Darzens is quite a gem, producing its pure white 

 exquisitely formed flowers in great abundance; it might 

 almost be called a perpetual Madame Hardy. Madame 

 Charles Wood is a robust-growing sort with large showy 

 crimson flowers and beautiful foliage, in size, form of 

 petal, and substance quite a show Rose, although the 

 flower expands rather quickly and is soon overblown. 

 My ideal of a Rose has always been, and still is, a half- 

 blown deeply cupped or globular flower ; the old Baronne 

 Prevost is beautiful of its kind, and so is La Fontaine, but 

 neither of these forms, call them compact, expanded, or 

 what you may, is at all comparable with the globular or 

 deeply cupped flower. Madame Ernest Dreol is a good 

 Rose of the Baronne Prevost style, but brighter in colour, 

 and with petals of greater substance. Madame Julie Daran 

 has with me been a little uncertain, but this may be 

 accidental rather than constitutional ; it appears a good 

 hardy Rose with large globular glossy vermilion-coloured 

 flowers. Maurice Bernardin is -quite first-rate, large, and 

 full, in colour bright vermilion. Monte Christo is a beau- 

 tiful Rose, indeed one of the most beautiful, but rather 

 difficult to manage; the flowers are blackish-purple painted 

 or flushed with scarlet not the natural flush of health, but 



