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T. W. Girdlestone in The Garden, U.K. 
Gloire de Margottin (Margottin pere) is expected to prove the best of all crimsons for forcing for the cut flower market, but at the same time the maiden blooms, especially in a cool season, will be likely to be available for exhibition, and it is worthy of note that Mr. Benjamin Cant, of Colchester, who rarely misjudges the value of a rose for the purpose, has recently expressed his opinion to that effect. The plant is very vigorous, free, and perpetual, the fragrant flowers being of good size and fairly full, and of the most brilliant crimson color.

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T. W. Girdlestone in The Garden, U.K. 
Gloire des Polyantha (Guillot). - A seedling from 'Mignonette', and so far the best of its miniature class. In all its main characteristics the plant follows its parent, forcing well and being an invaluable autumnal, but the flowers are larger and more perfect, and of a considerably deeper shade of rosy pink. First class certificate Royal Horticultural Society.

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T. W. Girdlestone in The Garden, U.K. 
Golden Fairy (Bennett) is another pretty variety of the same type, with well-formed orange flowers, much in the way of those of 'Perle d'Or'.

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T. W. Girdlestone in The Garden, U.K. 
Kronprinzessin Victoria (Volvert). - An attractive pale yellow Bourbon, said to be a sport from 'Souvenir de la Malmaison'. The plant flowers freely, with characteristic pointed buds, the color becoming almost white in the fully expanding blossoms.

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T. W. Girdlestone in The Garden, U.K. 
Lady Alice (George Paul). - A sport from 'Lady Mary Fitzwilliam', from which it differs only in color, being of a delicate flesh tint, paler and more refined than the type.

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T. W. Girdlestone in The Garden, U.K. 
Lady Castlereagh (Dickson). - As far as has been at present seen this is the best tea-scented rose of the year. The plant is a vigorous grower, the foliage handsome, the flowers large, finely formed, and of a pleasing shade of rosy yellow, with rose-color predominating at the margins of the petals, which being of great substance ensure the satisfactory expansion of the bloom, while it is very free-flowering and a thorough autumnal.

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T. W. Girdlestone in The Garden, U.K. 
L'Ideal (Nabonnand) is one of the most bewitching bud roses that has yet been sent out. The plant is of vigorous climbing habit, and produces with the utmost freedom the most charmingly colored buds of indescribably blended tints of bright rose and yellow. The coloring at a distance frequently recalls that of 'Fortune's Yellow', though with generally a more prevailing shade of rose, and if the variety prove equally hardy it will be likely to attain to great popularity as a striking climbing Noisette somewhat of the same class as 'William Allen Richardson'.

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T. W. Girdlestone in The Garden, U.K. 
Little Dot (Bennett).- The most diminutive of all the little Polyantha roses, producing tiny salmon pink flowers shading almost to white at the margins.

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T. W. Girdlestone in The Garden, U.K. 
Mme. Andre Duron (Bonnaire). - This rose has much the character of the old Bourbon 'Sir Joseph Paxton' in foliage, habit, and type of inflorescence; the flowers are said to sometimes attain to the size of those of 'Paul Neron', but it is to be feared that its common color will be much against it.

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T. W. Girdlestone in The Garden, U.K. 
'Henriette de Beauvau', the last rose sent out by the veteran raiser Lacharme, is also a climbing tea with much the character in habit and foliage of Mme. Eugene Verdier, but far freer both in growth and flowering than that beautiful though shy variety. The handsome, dark-colored wood and foliage show off the finely formed yellow flowers, which are of much the same shade as those of 'Perle des Jardins', to great advantage; in fact, it is probable that Lacharme's final contribution to our rose gardens will take rank as one of the most valuable additions to yellow climbers.