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Verdier, Of Bourbon Perpetuals, Baron Gonella, Baronne 

 de Noirmont, Comtesse de Barbantanne, Madame Charles 

 Baltet, and Madame de Stella are excellent. Louis XIV., 

 of the Rose de Rosomane group, is also invaluable on 

 account of the rich deep red globular flowers which it 

 produces. Among the charming Tea-Scented varieties 

 the best are : Alba Rosea, Bougere, Devoniensis, Eugene 

 Desgaches, Gloire de Dijon, Homer, Madame Damaizin, 

 Madame Falcot, Madame Margottin, Madame Villermoz, 

 Marechal Niel, Narcisse, Niphetos, Rubens, Safrano, 

 Sombreuil, and Souvenir d'un Ami. Of Bourbons I 

 recommend Empress Eugenie, Souvenir de Malmaison, 

 and Mrs Bosanquet ; while of Noisettes, Aime"e Vibert, 

 Celine Forestier, and Fellenberg are the most effective 

 in their way. 



The colours and general character of the above 

 varieties may be readily ascertained by reference to any 

 of the great Rose growers' catalogues. 



BEDDING ROSES. 



[From " The Florist? i868,/. 74.] 



BRILLIANT and beautiful as the ordinary " bedding 

 plants" are, there are few gardens that can be at once 

 economically and effectively arranged without a certain pre- 

 paration of permanent plants, which once planted exonerate 

 us from the labour, expense, and risk of removal in autumn 

 and replanting in spring. Of such, Roses stand in the very 

 first rank. To establish this point we would ask those of 

 our readers who may have taken an interest in gardening, 

 either from the amateur or the professional point of view, 

 over a lengthened period of time, whether they have not 

 occasionally met with groups or masses of Roses the rich- 

 ness and effect of which they would gladly see reproduced 

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