stems with their weight. It is a fragrant and most desirable variety.

Madame Jouvain.-Bright rose, with a buff centre. It is very fragrant, and has a vigorous growth, adapting it for pillars.

Ophire. A medium-sized rose, of a very singular color, entirely different from any other rose known, being a bright salmon, almost saffron. It blooms in clusters, and its luxuriant habit would make it a good pillar rose.

Solfaterre. Another superb rose, of very much the same character. Its flowers are large and globular, inclining to flat, and their color bright lemon. When half opened, the buds are superb. Like Chromatella, (and

Lamarque, the parent of both), its growth is very luxuriant. Rivers mentions a plant which threw out a shoot from a single bud eighteen feet in one season, and the next season was covered with flower-buds.

Triomphe de Rennes.-A fine rose, of large, full form, and canary color.

TEA ROSES.

Adam.-One of the finest tea-scented roses. Its flowers are cupped, very double and large, and of perfect form. It is very fragrant, and its color is a rich, glossy rose.

Abricoté.-Large and double; its color a pale fawn, with apricot centre.

Auguste Vacher.-Yellow, shaded with copper. Its form is large and full.

Barbot.-A very large, cupped rose, tea-scented, and of a beautiful fawn color.

Bougere.-A very large, superb rose, one of the very best of the tea-scented varieties. Its form is cupped, and its color a rich, glossy, bronzed rose.

Caroline.-A fine variety, with very double and perfect flowers, of a bright rose color.

Comte de Paris.-This is a superb cupped and teascented rose, whose magnificent size and hardy, robust nature fully compensate for its deficiency of petals, when fully expanded. Its foliage is large, its growth is very luxuriant, and its flowers of a pale rose color.

Clara Sylvain.-One of the best white roses. It grows very freely, and gives its globular, pure white, and fragrant flowers in the greatest abundance.

Devoniensis.-A very beautiful rose, of immense size. Like Chromatella, it is sometimes a shy bloomer when young, but is well adapted for forcing. Its form is cupped, and its color a fine creamy white, tinted with rose.

Duchesse d'Orleans.-Well cupped, and of a blush color.

Delphine Gaudot.-Of medium size, double and white. Dremont.—This has a delicately tinged buff color. David Pradel.-This variety is unique. Its color is rose, tinted with lavender, and its flowers are often of very large size.

Duc de Magenta.-Has a large and fine form. Its color is rosy salmon, shading to pink.

Eliza Sauvage.-One of the finest of the tea-scented roses. Its habit is good, its bloom is free and abundant, and its very large and double globular flowers are of a fine, pale yellow, with orange centre.

Enfant de Lyon.-Large and full, with yellow color. Eugene Desgaches.-One of the finest Tea Roses. It is very large and full, and its bud is unsurpassed. Its color is a clear, bright rose.

Eugenie Jovin.-One of the best roses. Its flowers are large, abundant, and of a flesh-colored white, slightly tinted with fawn.

Gigantesque. A very large and full rose, flesh-colored, and darker in the centre.

Grandiflora.—One of the most luxuriant and robust roses, and a distinct, excellent variety. Its flowers, are crimson, globular, and of the largest size.

General Tartas.-This is of a dark rose color, and has a large and full form.

Gloire de Dijon.—One of the finest and hardiest of the whole group. It is a strong grower, and makes a good climber. Its foliage is luxuriant, and its flowers are large and double. Their color is pale salmon, buff, and yellow. This variety will always give satisfaction.

Homer.-A peculiar and beautiful rose when in bud. Its color is rose, tipped with red, and with a salmon

centre.

Isabella Sprunt.-A new, yellow rose, of great merit. Its remarkably free blooming qualities make it a valuable acquisition for forcing and for cut flowers.

Jaune d'Or.-A golden yellow rose, of good form.

Julie Mansais.-A large and superb tea-scented rose, globular, and very fragrant. Its color is white, with lemon

centre.

Lyonnais.-A large rose, and one of the hardiest of its class. It blooms freely, with a pale flesh color. Its halfopened buds are beautiful.

Louis de Savoy.-Fine yellow, with large and full form. Madame de Vatry.-A very fine variety, with large and full form. Its color is deep rose.

Madame Bravy.-Finely formed, and of a creamy white color.

Madame Falcot.-Buff yellow, something deeper than Safrano, and more double in form. One of the best. Madame Halphin.-Large and full, and its color is salmon pink, with a lemon centre.

Madame de Tartas.-Large, and free blooming, of a bright rose color.

Madame Villermoz.-A very fine, large variety. Its color is creamy white, tinted with fawn, with a salmon

centre.

Maréchal Niel.-A vigorous growing rose, more free blooming than Chromatella. Its color is yellow, deepening at the centre to a rich, golden yellow. It is, perhaps, the largest and most beautiful yellow rose known, and very fragrant.

Marquise de Foucault.-Has a large white flower, with yellow centre. Its habit is vigorous.

Niphetos. Has long and pointed buds, of a pale straw color. It blooms best in dry weather.

Pactole. One of the very best of its class. Its form is cupped, and its color pale sulphur, with a deep yellow centre. It blooms very abundantly, and is robust and hard. It is one of the best roses for forcing, and for bouquets.

President. A fine, large, and well-formed rose. color is rose, shaded with salmon.

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Polonie Bordin.-Creamy salmon, with yellow centre, and full form.

Rubens.-Color rose and white, with yellow centre. Form large and double.

Safrano. This is scarcely excelled by any rose. Its half-opened bud is very beautiful, and of a rich, deep fawn color. When open, its form is cupped, and its color a much lighter fawn. These fawn-colored roses have peculiar charms for us; and of them all, there are none more beautiful or richer than Safrano.

Silene. A very beautiful tea-scented rose, cupped, very double, and fragrant. Its color is rose, shaded with crimson, and the plant is hardy and of luxuriant growth.