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growing sort, with large full flesh-coloured flowers. 

 Auguste Oger has large rosy flowers with deep coloured 

 centres, and is of moderate growth. Auguste Vacher is 

 distinct and good, the flowers are yellow shaded with 

 copper colour, of good average size^ and quite full, the 

 growth is moderate. Belle de Bordeaux is of rampant 

 growth, and the branches are well clothed with beautiful 

 deep green leaves ; the flowers are pink, large and full. 

 Bougere, although one of our oldest Roses, cannot yet be 

 dispensed with ; the flowers are rosy-bronze, very large, 

 full, and globular ; the growth is vigorous. Clara Sylvain 

 is a good pure white Rose with creamy centre, large and 

 full, of moderate growth. Comte de Paris is a beautiful 

 flesh-coloured flower, shaded with rose ; large, full, hardy 

 in habit, and of great excellence. Comtesse Ouvaroff is 

 beautiful in bud, but does not always expand symmetri- 

 cally ; the flowers are rose-shaded, large and full. Devoni- 

 ensis, which is an English seedling raised at Plymouth, is 

 still one of the best ; the flowers are pale yellow, very large, 

 full, and beautiful. Due de Magenta has immense salmon- 

 coloured flowers, which, if few in number, are of unequalled 

 breadth and substance. Elise Sauvage, Madame William, 

 and L'Enfant Trouve for I regard these as one and the 

 same is one of the sweetest and loveliest of the group ; 

 the flowers are yellow with a rich orange-coloured centre, 

 and very sweet ; the habit is sometimes robust, but more 

 usually delicate. Enfant de Lyon deserves a special word 

 of commendation on account of the freedom with which it 

 flowers, and the exactitude of its form ; although it re- 

 sembles Narcisse a little too closely it is of a paler yellow. 

 Eugene Desgaches is quite first-class ; its large, full, and 

 globular clear rose-coloured flowers are very beautiful ; the 

 growth is vigorous. Gloire de Dijon stands unrivalled and 

 alone; it is as hardy as a summer Rose, having lived through 

 the winter of 1 860-61 in places where all the Hybrid Per- 

 petual Roses were killed. Flowers of this Rose were sent 

 to me from Dijon, and exhibited at one of the Horticultural 



