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wood is a very tall bizarre, which has been held in 
very high estimation. It has a singular colour and 
character about it, unlike any other bizarre,—a sin- 
gular purple cast in the marking; and always brings 
a high price. It is in most good beds. 
even for the fourth row, mostly topping all others. 
The flower, however, is small for the height of the 
stem, and it is not very certain as to the marking. 
Rose Emily is a showy, clean, middle-row flower, 
of tolerably certain character; always pretty, some- 
times very fine; with a tolerably thick petal, clear 
white, and frequently well-defined marking. It is 
not plentiful, and therefore pretty high in price. 
Smaller roots do for the third row: but it should 
never be had in the second, for it will run up.—Rosa 
Blanca is a beautiful flower, and curiously sports into 
two very distinct subvarieties. One of these is 
beautifully and regularly feathered, and without any 
flame; and the other is richly feathered and flamed. 
The two are the same flower in different characters; 
and any body who grows the feathered kind will find 
in time that he will obtain the other, though the 
feathered and flamed kind does not go back to the 
lighter character. The flower is a showy subject in 
a bed; yet it blooms too early for the rest of the bed, 
—and after it has been out some days, its beautiful 
rose colour goes off to a light purple, and so distinct 
as to enable a stranger to pronounce one a byblomen, 
the other arose. It is a good third-row flower, and 
is occasionally used as a fourth-row flower; but is 
very apt to split and form two roots instead of bloom- 
ing; on which account two bulbs of it may be planted 
in the same hole.—Madame Vestris, in its best state, 
is a feather only, and one of the most rich and beau- 
tiful roses; but it more frequently comes full of flame 
and feather, in which state the colours are not so 
bright. It isa showy variety, very pure, very dis- 
tinct from all others, and an excellent marker for the 
country shows. When it comes with feather only, 
it seems as if the same quantity of colour that would 
be used for all the flame and feather were concen- 
trated in the feather only, it is so dense and rich. 
In this state it was called Princess Sophia of Glou- 
cester; but a few seasons’ growth settled the ques- 
tion, and Madame Vestris is unquestionably the 
identical flower, although the colour is so much 
deeper while feathered only. It is a second-row 
flower, but has been occasionally put into the third. 
—Triumph Royal is one of the best roses, though 
abused as much as any by new names when in differ- 
ent characters. It varies from the slightest possible 
feather to the deepest flame and feather. It is always 
beautiful, and deserves, however plentiful it may be, 
and however cheap, to take its stand among the very 
best class of roses. It is very pure, and its shape is 
far above the average.—Camuse is beautiful in a 
bed, but, on account of its form, cannot be safely 
admitted into a stand for show. The petals are al- 
ways three one way and three the other; and the 
three inner ones turn in, while the outer ones keep 
expanded more. It isa very pure and richly-coloured 
rose, stands well as a second-row flower, and is al- 
ways handsomely marked. ‘There is a difference of 
Opinion as to whether Camuse and Brilliant are the 
same flower; the only perceptible difference being, 
that Brilliant is full of splashes of red colour, as if 
it had been sprinkled with a brush; while in form, 
colour, purity, grass, and all other particulars, they 
are alike. It is said, however, that Camuse never 
comes speckled, and Brilliant never comes pure.—. 
Rose Esther, according to a specimen of it exhibited 
in 1833 at Hampton, is one of the most perfect things 
that can be imagined. The ground, or white, is of 
a singular texture; it is not clear white, but a sort 
of shade, like enamel, and as clear and apparently 
transparent. A flame up each petal, alike in all six 
petals, a close cup, rather taller than it ought to be, 
TULIP. 
It is tall. 
the bottom as pure as possible, and the whole as 
perfect a beauty as can well be imagined. Yet this 
exquisite specimen was but one of those freaks which 
flowers will take in spite of florists, and which are 
rarely equalled. The flower is naturally coarse and 
foul at the bottom; and in some seasons there has 
not been one clear bottom in twenty.—Lady Crewe 
isa small rose, often very beautifully marked, and 
frequently smudged at the bottom, but occasionally 
as clean and pure as snow. It is a brilliant colour, 
and, in its feathered state, when there is no flame, 
quite a little star in the outside row. The petals 
are too narrow to allow its full expansion; and, in- 
deed, like many country flowers, it seems very un- 
willing to open fully. Its brilliance, as compared 
with some roses, is greatly enhanced by the colour 
on the outside being nearly as good as the inside; 
but even this is secured by a disadvantage, the com- 
parative thinness of the petals.—Claudiana is a most 
beautifully coloured rose, good large flower, bloom- 
ing egg-shaped, and not fully expanding, the petals 
never losing their individual boat form. This flower, 
though quite desirable in every bed, is an awkward 
one to show; for it is seldom to be found without a 
blue stain on the shoulder among the other colours. 
It isa third and fourth-row variety; and a dozen 
would not look too many in any moderate-sized bed. 
—Catalani is a second and third-row flamed and 
feathered rose, of extraordinary rich colour, firm pe- 
tal, pure white; and, besides these qualities, has 
the advantage of being a free opener. It is a great 
favourite, and always assists a bed materially; but 
has been often unjustly confounded with Ceres 
Blanche and Ponceau Trés-blane.—Lac is a very 
high-priced rose, and deservedly a favourite, for its 
extremely brilliant colour. It is a first-row flower, 
of the full size for its height, but with much too 
thin a petal. When put on a stand, the place it rests 
on is seen through enough to cast a dark shade; and 
this is a sad drawback. Its colour approaches a 
scarlet; and when it first opens, it is a most beauti- 
ful object in a bed.—Rose Catharine, or Athalia, is 
a rose remarkable for its beautiful and very striking 
colour, rarely coming perfectly free from a stain in 
the bottom, and yet so desirable as a bad flower, 
that nobody of any taste would be without it. The 
lighter it is marked, the clearer it usually is in the 
bottom, and the brighter is its marking developed. 
It is a second row rose; and a few of it in a bed 1m- 
part great brilliancy.—Camuse de Craix is a very 
delicate and handsome rose, with a straw-coloured 
ground, and rich crimson scarlet markings. It is 
justly esteemed as a star in the first row, and the 
markings are generally very uniform, and have splen- 
did pencilling. When perfectly bloomed, the ap- 
pearance is very grand indeed; though it is some 
days in coming to its proper colour.—Ceres Belle- 
forme is a very compact and beautifully marked rose 
for the first or second row, but most proper for the 
first. It opens rather yellow, but bleaches white. 
The cup does not very much expand, but there are 
many good points to make up for it. ‘The petals are 
so well together, that, like Polyphemus and Salvator 
Rosa, they are like one petal instead of six; and 
the colouring is always beautiful in all its charac- 
ters. 
Louis XVI. is a very noble byblomen, but a most 
uncertain one. The white is good, and the marking 
a deep purple, almost black when in fine condition. 
The colour is very apt to run down too low, and 
the bottom to come smudged; and out of a score of 
Louis XVI. in a bed, there will be times when not 
one flower would be fine and clear as it ought to be; 
yet, for the sake of a bloom now and then, every- 
body grows it. ‘There are what the growers call 
different strains of it, which means that some flowers 
and their offsets are generally better than others, 
