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THE FLOWER GROWER'S GUIDE. 



Gustave Piganeau, Monsieur Noman, and Xavier Olibo, for example, give the greatest 

 percentage of good blooms upon maidens ; while Her Majesty, Annie Wood, Eclair, and 

 Marie Eady are indifferent bloomers in that form. Some of the Hybrid Perpetuals, 

 too, almost refuse to thrive upon any but the brier stock ; on which, however, they are 

 provided by nurserymen. Amateurs can only .find out the peculiarities of roses by 

 experience, and it could serve no useful purpose to describe them here. 



SELECTIONS OF EXHIBITION ROSES. 



Forty-Eight Hybrid Perpetuals. 



Dark Crimson with Maroon shading* 



{Prince Camille de Eohan. 



* Horace Vernet. 



'Charles Lefebvre. 



{Prince Arthur. 



{Xavier Olibo. 



*Comtesse d' Oxford. 



Louis Van Houtto. 



Abel Carriere. 



*Victor Hugo. 



tFisber Holmes. 



Dark Crimson. 

 *A. K Williams. 

 fDuke of Edinburgh. 

 'Gustave Piganeau. 

 {General Jacqueminot. 

 {Maurice Bernardin. 

 tCaptain Hayward. 

 Madame Victor Verdier. 



The best twelve H.P. 



Eclair. 



Senateur Vaisse. 

 tEarl of Dufferin. 



Light Crimson. 

 {Alfred Colomb. 

 tCamille Bernardin. 

 *Dupuy Jamain. 

 {Marie Baumann. 

 Beauty of Waltham. 

 tComte de Raimbaud. 

 {Comtesse de Ludre. 

 Marie Rady. 



Cherry Crimson to Bright Rose. 

 * Suzanne Marie Rhodocanachi. 

 fEtienne Levet. 

 *TJlrich Brunner. 

 Alphonse Soupert. 

 e marked * ; the next best twelve { 



{Tom Wood, 

 f Helen Keller. 



White. 

 {Margaret Dickson. 

 Marchioness of Londonderry. 

 Merveille de Lyon. 



Clear and deep Pink. 

 *Her Majesty. 

 {Madame Gabriel Luizet. 

 *Mrs. John Laing. 

 *Mrs. R. G. Sharman Crawford. 

 Baroness Rothschild. 

 Madame Eugene Verdier. 



Soft Pink. 

 fPrancois Michelon. 

 {Duchesse de Morny. 

 fMarchioness of Downshire. 

 t Marie Verdier. 

 fLaurence Allen, 

 and the third best twelve f- 



Deep Pink. 

 •Souvenir d'un Ami. 

 * Catherine Mermet. 

 'Bridesmaid. 

 Jules Finger. 



Soft Pinks shaded with Salmon. 

 t Ethel Brownlow. 

 *Maman Cochet. 

 *Ernest Metz. 

 Rubens. 

 fCleopatra. 

 fErnest Metz. 

 Princess Beatrice. 



White. 



Niphetos. 



The 



Thirty-Six Teas and Noisettes. 



*The Bride, 

 f Muriel Grahame. 

 fSouvenir do S. A. Prince. 

 Madame Bravy. 



*Innocente Pirola (creamy white). 



Deep Yellow. 

 *Marechal Niel. 

 fPerle des Jardins. 

 Etoile de Lyon. 



Pale Yellow. 

 * Madame Hoste. 

 tMarie Van Houtte. 

 fElise Fugier. 

 fCaroline Kuster. 

 best twelve aro marked * ; the next best 



fMedea. 

 Cornelia Kock. 



Salmony Copper and, Apricot. 

 Jean Ducher. 

 *Anna Olhvier. 

 *Comtesse de Nadaillac, 

 fFrancisca Kriiger. 

 Princess Beatrice. 



Creamy White shaded with soft Pink. 

 'Souvenir d'Elise Vardon. 

 fHon. Edith Gifford. 

 Golden Gate. 

 Devoniensis. 

 Mrs. James Wilson, 

 twelve f- 



