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May adding to its usual vivid tints, this Rose was the most brilliant, 
the most beautiful, I ever beheld. The figure of it given in Mr. 
Paul’s Rose- Garden gives but a very inadequate idea of its rich, deep, 
glowing scarlet; it is not a very free grower when budded on the 
Dog Rose; the Rosa Manetti seems to suit it admirably; I have 
never seen such flowers as my plants budded on that stock have pro¬ 
duced. 
Cymedor is another brilliant Rose of this class, in colour approach¬ 
ing perhaps to the Brompton Stock ? No ; yes; no ; who can describe 
the colour of some Roses ? “ C'est impossible, Monsieur j'' said Mon¬ 
sieur V., wdth a violent shrug of his shoulders, to give more effect 
to the ** sible” Yes, Monsieur,” I replied, “ God will give us, in 
his great bounty, such beauties as cannot be copied or described.” 
Monsieur V. was silent. 
Soleil d’Austerlitz is another of these brilliant crimson Roses, 
with neatly cupped flowers, quite worthy of the notice of the amateur. 
Commandant Fournier is also a brilliant-coloured Rose, of a bright 
carmine ; a very nice variety. Comte Montalivet, apparently a seed¬ 
ling from William Jesse, is a fine and very large Rose, much deeper 
in colour than its parent, with flowers finely cupped, not quite full, 
owing to which it blooms in great perfection in autumn. Jacques 
Lafitte, which last season was so superb, has not proved a good early 
blooming variety: its flowers have been hitherto crowded with petals, 
and imperfect. I observe, however, to-day (June 19th), that it is pro¬ 
ducing some flowers of the same deep rich rose-colour as last season. 
Reine de Fleurs is a new and very beautifully shaped Rose, varying 
in colour from pale rose to rose. It is most elegantly cupped, and 
decidedly a good variety, but without novelty in colour. Madame 
Verdier is also remarkable for the extreme perfection of shape of its 
finely cupped flowers, which are of a pale blush. The plant is very 
dwarf, and forms a compact little bush. Bouton de Flore, of a pale 
rose colour, is remarkable for blooming in very large clusters, forming 
a fine bush. L’Inflexible is a new Rose of great beauty, not for 
novelty in colour, as it is merely of a pinkish rose, but for its neat¬ 
ness and beauty; it is, indeed, in shape quite perfect. Then we have 
Henri IV., Duke of Devonshire, Comte Derby, Nadine Fay, Mon¬ 
taigne, Ariel, Admiral d’Esteing, Bindley, Mathilde Jourdeuil, Olivier 
de Serres, Titus Livius, or “ Tite Live,” Reine de Matin, Gulistan, 
and a host of others from that fertile source of new Roses, France. 
These are all pretty enough, but novelty in shape or colour is not 
to be found among them, and yet they have all been sent out at 
high prices. The descriptions, written by those who raised them, 
in the usual elastic French manner, were so tempting, and then the 
price, generally twenty-five francs each, made one suppose that they 
must be fine. Plenty of disappointment has been reaped ; still, it is 
the duty of the Rose-grower to prove all these novelties. Among 
them will occasionally be found a gem, like Geant des Batailles, which 
will reward him for many trials of his patience and his purse; and 
really such a reward is required. About three years since, I paid 
twelve pounds for six new Hybrid Perpetual Roses, from an amateur, 
