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esse de Vallombrosa, Emilie Hausburg, Francois 

 Michelon, Her Majesty, La France, Marguerite de 

 St Amand, Marie Finger, Mrs. John Laing, Marchioness 

 of Londonderry, Margaret Dickson, Merveille de 

 Lyon, and many others. Time was when the only 

 yellow Roses exhibited (Cloth-of-Gold was in exist- 

 ence, but lived in strict seclusion) were Solfaterre, 

 with very little yellow and still less shape ; Persian 

 Yellow, in hue golden, glorious, but in size a big 

 buttercup ; and sometimes a bud of Smith's Yellow, 

 which no power on earth could induce to open, a 

 pretty buttonhole flower. Now we have Amazone, 

 Bouquet d'Or, Celine Forestier, Etoile de Lyon, Jean 

 Fernet, La Boule d'Or, Perle des Jardins, Perle de 

 Lyons, Reine de Portugal, and magnificent Marechal 

 Niel ! Fancy Smith's Yellow in a modern collection — 

 Tom Thumb on parade with the Guards ! 



The names which I have just written again remind 

 me how much the Tea and Noisette Roses diversify 

 and beautify our show collections. That the former 

 are delicate and difficult to produce when we most 

 require them, is evident from their sparse appearance 

 in public ; but it is just one of those superable diffi- 

 culties which separate the sincere from the spurious 

 Rose-grower, and which only the former overcomes. 

 The conservatory and the orchard-house (there ought 

 to be, wherever there is taste and opulence, a Rose- 



