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A BOOK ABOUT ROSES 



following selection : — Abel Grand, Anna Alexieff, 

 Anna de Diesbach, Annie Wood, Baronne de Bon- 

 stetten, Baronne Prevost, Boule de Neige, Caroline de 

 Sansales, Comte de Nanteuil, Duke of Edinburgh, 

 Dupuy Jamain, Edouard Morren, General Jacque- 

 minot, John Hopper, Jules Margottin, Lyonnaise, La 

 France, Madame Boll, Madame Clemence Joigneaux, 

 Marechal Vaillant, Marquise de Castellane, Miss 

 Hassard, Paul Neron, and Senateur Vaisse. 



Of the Bourbons, although two only now attain 

 public honours, there are several which are valuable 

 additions to a general collection of Roses. Acidalie is 

 extremely pretty, nearly white, and blooming bounti- 

 fully in a genial season, when other Roses are scarce, 

 that is, in the later autumn. Although it grows vigor- 

 ously both upon stocks and, per se, when the soil and 

 the summer are propitious, it is but a fine-weather 

 sailor, and, Mike that love which has nothing but 

 beauty to keep it in good health, is short-lived, and 

 apt to have ague-fits.' I advise the amateur, conse- 

 quently, to remember Acidalie in the budding season, 

 so that he may always have a duplicate in reserve. 

 Armosa is a charming little Rose, neat in form, and 

 bright pink in complexion. Bouquet de Flore, an old 

 favourite, still claims a place for its carmine flowers ; 

 and Catherine Guillot, with Louise Odier, having both 

 the beauty and the family likeness of Lawrence's 



