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plant of Gloire de Dijon." For my part, I would 

 choose La France, for there is very little beauty of 

 colour or form to a florist's eye in the well-known 

 " Glory Die-John," except perhaps quite in the bud, 

 and even these are comparatively fat and squat, and 

 wanting in the elegance of the long, clean, pointed 

 buds of the aristocrats of Eoses. A plant of Gloire 

 de Dijon may be a hundred times the size of one of 

 Comtesse de Nadaillac, and may have more than 

 a hundred times the number of blooms ; but take 

 the finest Gloire de Dijon that ever was seen 

 and set it in a stand by a fair representative flower 

 of the other, and the great inferiority in every 

 respect, even in size, would at once be manifest. 

 The foliage is very fine, but it is not so evergreen as 

 Marechal Niel and some other of the Noisettes, 

 nor does it clothe the bases of the branches so well 

 as Eeve d'Or. It is not liable to mildew, cares little 

 for rain, and its bushels of blooms come unusually 

 uniform in colour and generally of the same weak 

 open shape. It is thoroughly hardy in this country, 

 and will gro\\" and flourish almost anywhere and 

 anyhow, tolerably well even on a north wall ; but in 

 America it has not proved so hardy against really 

 severe winters as some of the pure Teas, such 

 as Francisca Kriiger and Edith Gifford, and it is not 

 so popular in any country as it is here. A Eose of 

 such notoriety, which forms seed vessels freely, has 

 naturally been a prolific parent of varieties of similar 

 habit, forming a race, almost a class in themselves. 

 They differ only in colour, in shades of yellow, 

 salmon, and white. Among the best are Belle 

 Lyonnaise, Bouquet d'Or, Duchesse d'Auerstadt, 

 Emilie Dupuy, Henriette de Beauveau, Kaiserin 



