DESCRIPTIVE FLOWER LISTS. THE TULIP. 
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a few seasons' growth settled the question, and 
Madame Vestris is unquestionably the identical 
flower, although the colour is so much deeper 
while feathered only. It is a second-row 
flower, hut has been occasionally put into the 
third, when the roots have been finer than 
usual. It forms a fine contrast to anything 
in a stand while young, but flushes off pur- 
plish as it gets old. 
Triumph Royal. — One of the best of our 
roses, though 'cheap, and abused as much as 
any by new names when in different charac- 
ters. It varies from the slightest possible 
feather to the deepest flame and feather. It 
is always beautiful, and deserves, however 
plentiful it may be, and however cheap, to 
take its stand among the very best class of 
roses. It is very pure, and its shape is of 
the better kind, far above the average. If 
we were showing four roses for a prize, 
Triumph Royal, in its best apparel, would be 
one. 
Camuse. — Here is a flower which is beau- 
tiful in a bed, and cannot be done without ; 
but which, on account of its form, cannot be 
admitted with safety in a stand for show. 
The petals are always three one way and 
-three the other. The three inner ones turn 
in, while the outer ones keep expanded more; 
and the flower, however showy in the bed, 
and it is really beautiful, is a blemish to a 
stand. It is a very pure and richly-coloured 
rose ; stands well as a second-row flower, and 
is always handsomely marked. There is a 
difference of opinion as to the question of 
whether Camuse and Brilliant are the same 
flower ; the only perceptible difference being, 
that Brilliant is full of splashes of red colour, 
as if it had been sprinkled with a brush. In 
form, colour, purity, grass, and all other par- 
ticulars, they are alike ; but, they do say, that 
Camuse never comes speckled, and Brilliant 
never comes pure. But even if this be con- 
ceded, all that can, we think, be said, is, that 
it was a sport which keeps constant. In 
either case it is very pretty. 
Hose Esther. — A flower broken or bought 
by Mr. Strong, of Brook Green, and never 
held in any estimation until it was exhibited 
in 1833, at Hampton; one of the most perfect 
things that can be imagined, The ground, or 
white, is of a singular texture and shade. It 
is not clear Avhite, but a sort of shade, like 
enamel, and as clear, and apparently trans- 
parent. A flame up each petal, alike in all 
six petals, a close cup, rather taller than we 
like for perfection, the bottom as pure as pos- 
sible, and the whole as perfect a beauty as 
anything we had seen. This, alas ! was but 
one of those freaks that flowers will take in 
spite of us, and which we have never seen 
quite equalled since. The flower is naturally 
coarse and foul at the bottom. In some sea- 
sons there has not been a clear bottom in 
twenty. We should have thrown it away at 
once altogether had we grown it, or seen it 
grown in the general way, and not seen the 
splendid specimen exhibited at Hampton ; and 
to find another like it, we would grow it for 
years. We have seen it clean but five times 
in ten years. 
Lady Crewe. — A small rose, often very 
beautifully marked, and frequently smudged 
at the bottom, but occasionally as clean and 
pure as snow. It is a brilliant colour, and, in 
its feathered state, when there is no flame, 
quite a little star in the outside row. The 
petals are too narrow to allow its full expan- 
sion ; and, indeed, like many country flowers, 
it seems very unwilling to open fully. Its 
brilliance, as compared with some roses, is 
greatly enhanced by the colour on the outside 
being nearly as good as the inside ; but even 
this is secured by a disadvantage, the com- 
parative thinness of the petals. 
Claudiana. — A most beautifully coloured 
rose, good large flower, blooming egg-shaped, 
and not fully expanding, the petals never losing 
their individual boat form. This flower, though 
quite desirable in every bed, is an awkward 
one to show ; and it is seldom to be found 
without a blue stain on the shoulder among 
the other colours, towards the lower part of 
it ; the bottom itself is quite pure, and there 
is nothing to disqualify it as a show flower, 
though it loses ground sadly if there is blue 
colour on the shoulder, and must lose with 
good ones in the form. No bed could be so 
brilliant without as with it, for there is no 
substitute for colours or flowers of the height. 
It is a third and fourth-row variety, and a 
dozen would not look too many in any 
moderate-sized bed. 
Catalani. — A second and third-row flamed 
and feathered rose, of extraordinary rich colour, 
firm petal, pure white ; and, besides these 
qualities, has the advantage of being a free 
opener. Indeed, after it has been open some 
days, and long before it loses its brightness, it 
becomes rather loose than otherwise. It is a 
great favourite, and always assists a bed mate- 
rially. It has been often unjustly confounded 
with Ceres Blanche, and Ponceau Tres-blanc. 
As we have grown them, it has been impossible 
to mistake Catalani for anything, for it is like 
nothing else ; and we might say the same of 
Ceres Blanche ; for, while the former is a 
tall second, or moderate third-row flower, 
we never saw the latter too tall for the 
first ; nor is the flower so bold and striking. 
The only two beds in which we have seen the 
true Catalani grown under its own name, was 
Mr. Strong's, and Mr. Brown's. We have in 
many others seen the right flower called Ceres 
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