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go to. Hundreds of gardeners and Rosarians, who would 

 otherwise never have heard of the great French artist, 

 have had his name " familiar in their mouths as house- 

 hold words " by the help of this most noble Eose his 

 namesake. 



James Brownlow (A. Dickson and Sons, 1889). — A 

 seedling from Paul Neyron and Marquise de Castellane. 

 and inclined, as was likely from such parentage, to be 

 coarse from being too full. The growth is uncertain, 

 but the colour is distinct and brilliant. Very late in 

 blooming and generally much wanting in smoothness 

 and regularity, but on rare occasions a fine lasting bloom 

 may be obtained. The family of Paul Neyron is practi- 

 cally free from mildew. 



Jean Liabaud (Liabaud 1875). — "Of fair growth and 

 foliage, not liable to mildew or injury from rain. A free 

 bloomer, but a -poor autumnal, and a Rose of shocking- 

 manners. Occasionally one gets a lovely bloom, of open 

 imbricated shape, not strong in the centre, but shaded 

 in the most beautiful way with all sorts of tints from 

 vermilion to the deejDest crimson or maroon. But if you 

 get one such in the course of a year from a dozen plants 

 you will be pretty lucky, for most of the flowers come 

 distorted in all sorts of ways. Worth mentioning for 

 the mere beauty of colour shading, but an amateur, 

 with not much room to spare 3 will probably soon have 

 had enough of this Rose. 



Jean Soupcrt (Laeharine, 1875). — Syn. Grand Mogul 

 (W. Paul and Son, 1887). It is strange that these two 

 Roses should be so very like, not only in flower, but in 

 wood, habit, manners and customs, when the latter is said 

 to be a seedling from A. K. Williams, which is two years 

 younger than Jean Soupert. At any rate, the National 

 Rose Society was no doubt right in pronouncing them too 



