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habit as Madame Laffay, from -n-hich we should think it a seedling; the 

 flowers are larger, more double, deeper in color, and the petals much 

 thicker. Joan of Arc, wliicli belongs to the rare, rather than the quite new, 

 is a first-rate rose, but a rather shy bloomer ; the flowers are large and well 

 formed ; the ground color white, witli rosy centre. Soliel d'Austerlitz is a 

 showy brilliant-crimson rose, sometimes superb, but uncertain ; this is more 

 rare than new. Belle Americaine is a beautiful rose of American origin ; 

 the floM'ers are rose-color, with blush edges, and produced in great abun- 

 dance ; tlie form is unsurpassed ; and the habit of growth dwarf. Madame 

 Guillot has obtained a great reputation, greater perhaps than it deserves, 

 but is still a pretty enough rosy-crimson, with very double flowers. George 

 Lecamus is a greater favorite with us ; the flowers are blush, large and 

 full, and the form perfect. Madame Pepin is a very beautiful variety; 

 the flowers are large and full, of a soft rose color ; the back of the pe- 

 tals almost white. Amandine is of a delicate rose color, also large and full ; 

 the fastidious would probabl}' complain of a little roughness often visible at 

 the edges. Berenger is a purplish-crimson rose, distinct, large, and full ; 

 one of the few good ones recently received from Angers. Princesse Join- 

 ville is a pretty crimson variety, distinct in color and habit of growth. Gen- 

 eral Negrier is a beautiful blush rose, of globular form, one of the finest of 

 the group, but a bad grower : this is also rare ratlier than new. Of the 

 newest good hybrid Perpetuals, we may mention Madame de Lamoriciere; 

 a pale-rose colored variety, worthy of a place in every collection ; the form 

 is cupped ; it is a free grower ; a constant and an abundant bloomer. Na- 

 omi is also a rose of great merit ; the color is blush, with rose centre ; the 

 form resembles that of General Allard, but it appears a better grower, and 

 a more constant autumnal bloomer. This rose was originated at Rouen, 

 and is at present but little known. Caroline de Sansal has bloomed mag- 

 nificently at the Cheshunt Nurseries ; the flowers were large and full as 

 those of Baronne Prevost, their color blush, with rosy flesh centre ; it is also 

 of vigorous growth. Chereau, whose flowers arc cherry-color wlien newly 

 opened, gi-adually changing to rose, has also flowered well here. From 

 flowers of this variety, seen on the Continent, I had formed an unfavorable 

 opinion of this variety ; but roses have their climates as well as seasons, and 

 the best roses of England are not seen to the greatest advantage in France. 

 We may add that the flowers of Chereau are large, full, and of fair form- 

 Lady Frances Waldegrave is a pretty variety, of a light salmon crimson -, 

 the flowers are large and full, of good fonn, and produced in great abun- 

 dance. General Cavaignac is much admired by the many, on account of its 

 perfect form. The flowers are rosy pink, large and full. Rosina Margottin 

 is a pretty rose, but resembles too closely the Duchesse de Montpensier ; 

 we doubt, moreover, whether it is an improvement on it. General Changar- 

 nier is a very large rose ; the color is violet purple ; it is showy, but some- 

 what coarse. Leonore d'Este is a pretty distinct flesh-colored variety, large 

 and full, but apparently a rather shy grower. Reine Mathildc is well 

 worthy of cultivation, if only for its color, wliich is of the freshest, softest 

 pink ; it partakes more of the Bourbon rose than any of the preceding, and, 



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