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Batailles ; in Madame Victor Verdier an improved 

 General Jacqueminot ; in Lady Suffield an improved 

 Duchess of Norfolk ; and there are other improvements 

 too numerous to mention. We have also in Alfred 

 Colomb, Antoine Ducher, Charles Verdier, Comtesse de 

 Jaucourt, Horace Vernet, Jules Calot, Black Prince, 

 Madame Pulliat, Madeleine Nonin, Monsieur Noman, 

 Paul Verdier, Thorin, and others, new colours and styles 

 which only require to be seen to be coveted. It is true 

 that some of the last-named did not appear at the exhibi- 

 bitions, or appeared only in doubtful condition, but I 

 have seen them both at home and in the grounds of 

 the raisers in a state of beauty that justifies unquali- 

 fied commendation. 



GARDEN EOSES. 



[From " The Florist? 1867, p. 213.] 



" T~) OSES at the exhibitions and Roses in one's own 

 iV garden are different things," said an old Rose 

 amateur to me the other day, and so much is there in 

 this remark, that having already given a paper on Roses 

 at the Exhibitions, I turn now to treat of " Garden 

 Roses." 



It is perhaps scarcely necessary to remark that those 

 who admire Roses in all their native loveliness on bush 

 or tree should hardly choose their varieties from the cut 

 specimens met with at the flower shows. Lovely they 

 are, it is true for when and where is the Rose not 

 lovely ? but there is a " getting up," a weary look about 

 them, which reminds one of the late hours of the ballroom 

 rather than of the charming freshness and native simplicity 

 of home life. And how can it be otherwise ? When we 

 consider that these Roses have been gathered from fifty 



