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and this includes all our popular Hybrid Perpetual Roses. Turning 
to the Catalogue of M. Verdier, another eminent Rose-grower, I find 
Hybrid Perpetual Roses divided as follows : 
GROUP I. 
Varieties having resemblance or affinity to Bourbon Roses. 
This group includes many, to me, anomalous varieties; for I 
find Ernestine de Barante, Psyche, Eliza Balcombe, and Mrs. Cripps, 
which seem far removed from any likeness to Bourbon Roses. 
GROUP II. 
Varieties having resemblance or affinity to Hybrid Bengal or 
Chinese Roses. 
In this group I find Amanda Patenotte, Amandine, Montaigne, 
Niobe, and Yolande d’Aragon, Roses claimed by M. Vibert as belong¬ 
ing to his group of Belle de Trianon Roses. 
GROUP III. 
Hybrid Noisette and Prudence Rseser. 
GROUP IV. 
Hybrids of which the origin is unknown. 
L’lnfiexible, Soleil d’Austerlitz, and Victoire d’Austerlitz. 
1 give the above extracts to shew how “ doctors disagree,’ 5 and 
to point out to our English growers the utter uselessness of imitating 
their French brethren, who, for some few years, have made these 
inconvenient divisions. On turning to our English Rose-Catalogues, 
which, on the whole, do credit to their compilers, I find, under 
“ Autumnal Roses,” in that of Mr. Rivers, 
“ Damask Perpetual Roses, Hybrid Perpetual Roses, and Dwarf 
Hybrid Perpetual Roses.” 
The latter includes some few of those denominated by M. Verdier 
as varieties having resemblance to Bourbon Roses. This is so far 
convenient as making it easy to select Roses for small beds; but I 
am quite inclined to cut short this grouping. 
In the Catalogue of Messrs. Lane and Son I find a close imita¬ 
tion of the French growers, as follows : 
DAMASK PERPETUAL,—HYBRID PERPETUAL. 
First Division. 
Containing, with La Reine, Madame Laffay, Baronne Prevost, and 
other established favourites, Crillon, Olivier de Serres, Sidonie, and 
Niobe, Roses of the Belle de Trianon group of M. Vibert. 
