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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
special duty, and consisting of MM. Carriere, Emile Chatefils, Dufoy, Malet, 
Domage, Ermens, Legrand, Rafarin, and Urbain. 
Tliis Committee met in August last, and selected the following sorts as 
the most deserving of cultivation. They are here arranged in bracketed 
groups of different shades of certain leading colours, as given in the French 
journals, those of the deeper shade in each case standing first. The brackets 
indicate different shades graduating down towards the lightest. Those 
marked with an asterisk (*) were approved for cultivation under glass, the 
others for the open garden in the climate of France. The figures 1, 2, 3, 
indicate the first, second, and third degrees of merit:— 
White. 
' White Tom Thumb*—1 (also for open air). 
Blanche de Castille* (Boulanger)—2. 
The Swan* (Bull)—2. 
'La Vest ale* (Babouillard)—1. 
White , tinted. 
Virgo Maria (Nivelet)—1. 
Lara (Lemoine)—2. 
Schneeball (Hock)—1. 
Madame Vaucher (Babouillard)—2. 
.White Perfection. 
Red or Salmon-eyed. 
Les Gaules (Lemoine)—1. 
Eugenie Mezard* (Babouillard)—1 (also 
open air). 
Charlotte Corday (Nardy freres)—2. 
/ Gloire de Corbeny* (Babouillard)—1 (also 
open air). 
- Madame la Baronne Haussmann* (Ville de 
Pas is)—1 (also open air). 
.Mathilde Moret (Chardine)—3. 
(Havilah (Jarlot)— 2. 
- Baronne de Staid (Malet)—2. 
(Madame Rendatler* (Nivelet)—2. 
f Charles Rouillard* (Mezard)—2. 
1 Nina Hock (Plock)—3. 
Madame Prudent Gaudin (Bruant)—2. 
(Amelina Grisau* (Lemoine)—1. 
J Ary Zang—2, for edging. 
1 Norma.*—2. 
IPrincesse Alice (Smith)—3. 
Madame Dangfiy* (Nardy freres)—2. 
'Monseigneur Lavigerie (Kendatler)—1. 
Le Prophete (Lemoine)—1. 
Madame Dufour* (Malet)—1. 
Brillant de Toulouse* (Smith)—3. 
Ludwich Uhland (Weinrich)—2. 
Marie Labbe (Chardine)—1. 
Dame Blanche* (Plaisamjon)—1. 
(Madame Berthe Foache* (Rendatler)—1. 
Madame Verle* (Babouillard)—1. 
Gaetana* (Weick)—2. 
Souvenir de M. Peyrot* (Bruant)—1. 
Rose. 
'Madame Ermens* (Ville de Paris)—extra. 
Christinus (Babouillard)—1. 
Mademoiselle Henriette Renoult. 
Jules Arlet. 
Rose, tcith white eye. 
'Beaute de Suresnes (Gassier)—2. 
Beaute du Parterre (A. Dufoy)—1. 
- Rose de Madrid (Jarlot)—3. 
Gloire des Roses* (Varengue)—2. 
k Belle Rose* (Rendatler)—2. 
Beaute d’Europe (Crousse)—1. 
Gloire de France—3. 
Rose Rendatler (Rendatler)—2. 
j Kcetchen Schreurer (Hock)—extra. 
(MademoiselleNoemieLegendre(Paulin)—2. 
Carmine Red. 
Cardinal* (Crousse)—1. 
Ornement des Massifs (Crousse)—2. 
(Triomphant* (Boulanger)—3. 
-j Imperial* (Richalet)—3. 
Abondance (Nardy freres)—2. 
Amedee Achard* (Crousse)—1 (also open 
air). 
Staatsrath Valher* (Weinrich)—3. 
Madame Madeleine* (Lemoine)—2. 
Christian Deegen (Lemoine)—1. 
Hardy Gaspard* (Boucharlat)—-1. 
Macrantha* (Liabaud)'—2. 
Lapeyrouse* (Rendatler)—2. 
'Vulcain (Smith)—3. 
Louis Roezeler (Rendatler''—2. 
Nora (Bull)—2. 
Nardy freres* (Puteaux-Chaimbault)—1. 
Victoire de Puebla (Chardine)—1. 
Herald of Spring (Turner)—2. 
Tintoret. 
Madame Gdnisset (Nardy fibres)—2. 
Madame Rudolphe Abel* (Crousse)—2. 
Bonnie Dundee (Bull)—2. 
Monsieur Julien Meunier (L’Huillier)—1. 
Orange Red. 
Tom Thumb—3. 
Frogmore—3. 
