Plate 802 . 
POSE, MISS MARGARET DOMBRAIN. 
When we were in Paris last year M. Eugene Verdier brought 
to us the blooms of a Pose which, in our opinion, was one of 
the best that we had seen, and we are glad to find that both on 
the Continent and at home this opinion has been endorsed by 
some of our most celebrated rose-growers, for on all sides it 
has been brought under our notice. We saw it very fine at 
Lyons; a very beautiful row of it at Vi try, near Paris, was very 
attractive; while in many of our winning stands of new roses 
this year it occupied a prominent place; and it was only the 
other day that in going over Mr. Frazer’s, of Lea Bridge Nursery, 
his rose foreman pronounced it to be one of the very best roses 
of the year. It is the rose we now figure. 
We have been of late years so inundated with roses of the 
crimson class (the greater portion of them being the issue of 
General Jacqueminot) that the raisers of new roses on the Conti¬ 
nent seem inclined to turn their attention more to the lighter- 
coloured flowers. There is no doubt that w T e want roses of this 
class and also white flowers (a class in which w T e are still very 
deficient), and hence w T e were glad to notice during a visit paid 
lately to the rose gardens of Lyons and Paris, that the most pro¬ 
mising roses of the year are the lighter-coloured ones; while we 
think that few flowers of the present season will take a higher 
position than the one we now figure and Josephine Beauharnais , 
a seedling of Louise Peyronney , and strongly marked with the 
character of that fine flower. 
Miss Margaret Dombrain was, as we have said, raised by M. 
Eugene Verdier, and is a seedling of that fine old rose Im Peine- 
It is a flower of large and globular form; the colour is a bright 
rosy-pink, somewhat between its parent La Peine and Comte 
