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THE FLORIST. 
a French “ gentleman,” not one of which proved worth a farthing. 
They manage these things well (for themselves) in France, and seem 
to think that every Rose that is new must be good ; but we must 
endeavour to manage better, and to avoid this, as well as many other 
Gallican peculiarities. The Rose-grower should prove all his new 
Roses before he sells them; and the real lover of Roses, instead of 
planting a bed of unknown novelties, should make a group of Madame 
Laffay, another of Baronne Prevost or La Reine, another of Due 
d’Aumale, and so on, preferring to have a small clump of each sort, 
rather than a large one of mixed varieties. The lawn may thus be 
painted with excellent effect. It will perhaps be not out of place 
here to give a list of a few sorts which are really good, and of which 
the plants are now sold at a very moderate price, so that a clump of 
each would not be at a heavy cost. 
1. Aubernon : crimson ; habit compact, and rather dwarf. 
2. Augustine Mouchelet: crimson, very brilliant in dry weather; 
habit a little more robust than No. 1. 
3. Baronne Prevost: bright rose (how very brilliant it has been 
this season !); habit vigorous and robust, fit for a clump in 
centre of lawn. 
4. Comtesse Duchatel: bright rose ; flowers most elegant and per¬ 
fect in shape; habit compact, medium. 
5. Dr. Marx: brilliant crimson; habit robust, vigorous, and 
rather tall. 
6. Due d’Aumale: brilliant crimson; habit rather more dwarf 
than No. 1. 
7. Duchess of Sutherland : bright, or sometimes pale rose ; habit 
vigorous, equal to No. 5. 
8. Lady Alice Peel: deep pink ; a most perfect and beautiful 
rose; habit compact, and rather dwarf, like No. 1. 
9. La Reine : brilliant glossy rose ; flowers large, perfect in shape, 
and most splendid; this very fine Rose does not bloom so 
well early in the season as towards its close; habit rather 
dwarf, about equal to No. 1. 
10. Madame Laffay: rosy crimson; habit about equal to No. 2. 
11. Marquise Boccella: very pale flesh; habit dwarf — more so 
than any of the preceding, and very compact.' 
12. Robin Hood : bright rosy pink; a most elegant and beautiful 
Rose ; habit about equal to No. 2. 
Now, let the genuine lover of Roses imagine a fine neatly dressed 
lawn, with twelve well-arranged groups, containing from ten to 
twenty plants each of the above beautiful Roses, in bloom from May 
till November, exhaling their sweet perfume in the freshness of the 
morning and evening, and glowing with beauty under the beams of 
the mid-day sun. Can any thing in floriculture be more desirable, 
or more deserving of admiration from the lover of the works of 
nature ? 
