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Roses which are delightful in this respect, and I will name them, 

 giving the colours of the flowers. I can strongly recommend them 

 all as delightful in every respect : La France, silvery pink ; Mrs. 

 John Laing, dark pink; Gabriel Luizet, light pink; Charles Le- 

 febvre, dark red ; Victor Hugo, dark scarlet ; Marie Bamnann, 

 carmine ; A. K. Williams, dark red ; Madame Montet, rose colour; 

 Madame deWatteville, rose-tipped petals of pale salmon; Ernest Metz, 

 carnation pink ; Madame Lambard, varying from light red to light 

 buff ; Celine Forestier, canary yellow ; Marechal Niel, deep yellow ; 

 Lamarc^ue, lemon and white ; Madame Berard, buff and salmon ; 

 Sunset, orange ; Bouquet d'Or, orange yellow ; Souvenir d'un Ami, 

 pink ; General Jacqueminot, bright red ; Prince Camille de Rohan, 

 black red ; Augustine Guinosseau, the white La France ; Viscountess 

 Folkestone, salmon and cream colour ; Gloire de Dijon, variable in 

 colour from yellow to salmon ; andLuciole.' — G ard en er^s Magazine. 



' How sweet to walk the velvet green 

 Where the embowering Eoses meet ; 

 Resplendent Rose, the queen of flowers ! 

 Oh, is not their scent divinely' sweet ? ' — Moore. 



The Perfume of Roses. — Mr. Curtis of Torquay, an eminent Rose- 

 grower, describes seventeen different sorts of scent in Roses as fol- 

 lows : ' Sweet Brier scent, as in the garden variety ; Moss Rose scent, 

 as in Common Moss and family ; Austrian Brier-scent, as in Copper 

 Austrian and family ; Musk Rose scent, as in Narcissus, old Musk 

 and family ; Myrrh scent, as in Ayrshire splendens ; China Rose 

 scent, an astringent, refreshing scent, as in old Monthly China and 

 many others ; Damask perpetual scent, as in Rose du Roi, etc. ; 

 Scotch Rose scent, as in the early double Scotch ; Violet scent, as in 

 White Banksian ; old Cabbage scent, as in the well-known double 

 Provence ; Otto perpetual scent, as in Charles Lefebvre, Madame 

 Knorr, etc. ; true perpetual scent, as in Chabrilland, Pierre Notting, 

 etc. ; old Tea scent, as in the old Yellow Tea or Magnolia Rose, 

 and others almost unpleasantly strong for some tastes ; Sweet Tea 

 scent, as in Goubault, Marechal Niel, etc. ; hybrid Tea scent, as in 

 La France ; Nectarine, or fruit scent, as in Socrates, Jaune Desprez, 

 Aline Sisley, etc. ; and the Verdier scent, represented more or less 

 by all the Victor Verdier hybrids, such a& Eugenie Verdier, Castel- 

 lane. Countess of Oxford, 'Marie Finger, etc. The petals of the 

 highly-scented varieties have on their inner surface minute perfume 

 glands or vesicles, containing the highly volatile essence, under the 

 microscope distinctly visible. Those on the petals of Sweet Brier 

 and Moss are almost visible to the naked eye. Mr. Curtis con- 

 cludes that the following are the most deliciously and powerfully 



