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good both at home and abroad : Alice Bureau, Aristide 

 Dupuis, Baron Haussmann, Boule de Neige, Clotilde 

 Rolland, Comte Raimbaud, Cure de Charentay, Duchesse 

 d'Aoste, Elie Morel, Frangois Fontaine, Imperatrice 

 Charlotte (of doubtful constitution), La France (a grand 

 garden Rose), Madame Barriot, Madame Chirard, Madame 

 la Baronne de Rothschild (very beautiful), Madame Marie 

 Cirodde, Madame Noman (a good flower, but delicate), 

 Pitord, President Willermoz, Prince Humbert, Reine du 

 Midi (much like La Reine), Souvenir de Caillat, Souvenir 

 de Frangois Ponsard, Sophie de la Villeboisnet, and 

 Vicomtesse de Vezins Hybrid Perpetuals ; Souvenir de 

 Pierre Vibert Perpetual Moss; Clotilde (much like 

 Bougere), and Jean Pernet Tea-Scented. The colours of 

 these varieties will be seen on reference to any of the 

 Rose growers' catalogues. 



Of the new Roses of 1868-9 I am waiting for further 

 evidence, and shall make them the subject of a separate 

 paper by-and-by. 



EOSES IN POTS: 



How to Produce them in London and other 

 large Towns. 



[From " The Florist" 1869,^. 193.] 



1AM not fond of climbing high mountains or cracking 

 hard nuts, but the former, even when they seem in- 

 accessible in the distance, are often found to yield most 

 pleasurable exercise to the hardy pedestrian, and there 

 are mechanical appliances for dealing with the latter 

 which at once save appearances and leave us free from 

 the risk of dental injury. Now, the art of growing Roses 

 in large towns is to the many who only look on from the 



