132 TEA-SCENTED ROSES. 



Society's Shows at Chiswick before it was sold to the 

 public. I have seen it grow 20 feet in a season trained 

 against a house, producing leaves of a size and substance 

 truly remarkable ; the flowers are yellow, fawn and salmon, 

 variously shaded, large, full, and globular. Josephine Mai- 

 ton is a beautiful but delicate Rose, with cream coloured 

 flowers, large and double. Julie Mansais, I may add, is 

 not one of the freest of Roses, but when well grown it is 

 certainly one of the loveliest; the flowers are usually white, 

 though sometimes tinged with lemon ; large and full. La 

 Boule d'Or is the deepest yellow of this group, and some- 

 times beautiful under glass ; out of doors the buds are 

 often as hard as a cricket-ball, and as little disposed to 

 open ; it is nevertheless desirable for its colour, and is 

 hardy, vigorous, and free. Loose petals of this Rose were 

 sent to me from Paris the year before it was introduced. I 

 was struck with the colour, but adjudged it too hard in the 

 bud. Resists can make out a flower from a petal as 

 physiologists an animal from a bone. Louise de Savoie 

 is a fine large pale yellow Rose, good for under glass. 

 Madame Bravy is a prettily-shaped cream-coloured flower 

 good out of doors as well as within. Madame Damaizin 

 is very free both in growth and flowering, and hardy also ; 

 the flowers are salmon colour, large, full, and sweet. 

 Madame Falcot is quite first-class ; it is much in the style 

 of Safrano, but deeper in colour and more double ; it re- 

 mains to add that it does not grow so freely as that 

 old favourite. Madame de St Joseph has very large sal- 

 mon-pink flowers, powerfully fragrant, and of great beauty; 

 it is best under glass. Madame Halphin differs from 

 all others ; the flowers, which are large and tolerably full, 

 vary from salmon-pink to yellowish white. Madame 

 Pauline Labonte is a large flat salmon-coloured Rose, 

 showy and very hardy. Madame Villermoz is one of 

 the gems of this group ; the large full wax-like flowers 

 white shaded with salmon and splendid foliage unite to 

 form an object of rare beauty ; the habit is also hardy, 



