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red Rose, large and very showy, not very double, but the 

 finest of all late blooming brilliant pillar or climbing Roses. 

 Sceur des Anges, H.P., is a delicate rosy-white flower, very 

 large and full, distinct and beautiful. Souvenir de Charles 

 Montault is a free flowering variety of the Rose de Roso- 

 mane group, producing large double cupped flowers of a 

 brilliant red ; the habit is good, the growth free. Triomphe 

 d'Angers, H.P., pleased me much both abroad and at home; 

 the flowers are red shaded with blackish violet, brilliant 

 and velvety, full, of good size and form ; it grows and 

 flowers freely. Triomphe de Nancy, H.P., is a blackish 

 velvety-crimson cupped flower, with large round petals ; one 

 of the darkest. William Paul, H.P. (so named by Guillot 

 of Lyons, the raiser of Geant des Battailes and Senateur 

 Vaisse), is a descendant of the " Senateur," and will be a 

 favourite with lovers of colour ; it reminds one of the most 

 brilliant of the old " French ". Roses now discarded because 

 so transitory; black, edged with. scarlet, though not liter- 

 ally true, conveys the appearance of the colour ; it is of 

 average size ; in the early stage of the flower nicely cupped, 

 sufficiently full, and very durable ; the plant appears hardy, 

 the growth free. 



The above named sorts are described from my own 

 notes taken from plants in bloom. In addition to these I 

 am growing the following : Baronne de Lassus de St 

 Genies, Caravane de Nismes, Comtesse de Courcy, Com- 

 tesse de Polignac, Deuil de Prince Albert, Dr Spitzer, Due 

 de Bassano, Grandiflora, Hortense , Blachette, Le Juif 

 Errant, Madame Charles Roy, Madame Crespin, Madame 

 Helye, Madame Valembourg, Peter Lawson, Prince Henri 

 des Pays Bas, Senateur Favre, Vainqueur de Goliath, 

 Veloutee d'Orleans, all Hybrid Perpetuals ; and Comtesse 

 de Brossard, Tea-Scented. This second undescribed list I 

 have either not yet seen, or seen only in such condition 

 that I cannot speak favourably; of them. To condemn 

 them on present evidence would, however, be unfair. No- 

 thing is more uncertain than the first year's blooming of a 



