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rather a hectic glow, too clear and beautiful to be associated 

 with hardihood and longevity ; one flower is however a suffi- 

 cient recompense for a year's care. Olivier Delhomme is a 

 bold showy crimson Rose of good form and hardy constitu- 

 tion, the foliage particularly handsome. Prince Camille de 

 Rohan is quite distinct from any Rose I have yet seen ; the 

 flowers are dark velvety maroon, the circumference in- 

 clining to blood red, the colours very rich and splendid. 

 Professor Koch may be called a crimson Coupe d'Hebe 

 flowering in the autumn, a Rose of first-rate quality. 

 Robert Fortune belongs to the useful rather than the 

 brilliant ; it does not flower so freely as some, but the 

 flowers, which are rosy crimson, are large, full, sweet, well- 

 formed, and always good. Souvenir de Lady Eardley 

 yields an abundance of large almost full reddish-scarlet 

 flowers, the growth is exceedingly vigorous, the foliage 

 fine. Souvenir de Comte Cavour (Margottin) is a good 

 enough Rose, though not over large, the flowers are 

 crimson and black shaded, very rich looking and effective 

 on the tree. Vulcain was good last year, and has been 

 better in the forcing houses this spring ; the flowers are 

 bright purplish-violet shaded with black, very dark and 

 distinct. The foregoing were the best of the last year's 

 Hybrid Perpetuals with me. The experience of other 

 growers may have been different, and I should be glad 

 to hear their views. There were also two Tea-Scented 

 sorts which pleased me much Gloire de Bordeaux and 

 Triomphe de Guillot Fils. Belle de Bordeaux, which is a 

 year older than the first-mentioned, was exhibited several 

 times last year under the name of Gloire* de Bordeaux. 

 The latter was with me lighter in colour and finer in form, 

 but they resemble each other almost too closely. Triomphe 

 de Guillot Fils is white shaded with rose and salmon, very 

 large, full, and sweet. If an addition to the foregoing be 

 required, the following stand next in rank in rny note-book 

 for that year : Alexander Dumas, Gloire de Chatillon, 

 Madame Caillat (very good), Marechal Vaillant, Souvenir 



