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most recent 12 OCT 14 HIDE POSTS
 
Initial post 12 OCT 14 by CybeRose
Gardeners’ Chronicle (Apr. 8, 1843) p. 226
T. RIVERS, jun., begs to call the attention of his Friends to the following selection of new Hybrid, Perpetual, and other Autumnal Roses, all of which are first-rate varieties, and good healthy Plants.

— s./d.
1. Aubernon — 3/6
2. Augustine Monchelet — 5/0
3. Clementine Seringe — 10/6
4. Comte de Paris — 2/6
5. Doctor Marx (Laffay) — 10/6
6. Doctor Marjolin (Do.) — 10/6
7. Duc d'Aumale (Do.) — 7/6
8. Lady Alice Peel (Do.) — 10/6
9. Lane (Do). — 10/6
10. Madame Laffay (Do.) — 3/6
11. Prince de Gales (Do.) — 10/6
12. Prince Albert (Do.) — 3/6
13. Prudence Roeser — 5/0
14. Reine de Lyon — 21/0
15. Rivers (Laffay) — 7/6
[The above are quite hardy and very fragrant; Nos. 3, 12, and 13 remarkably so. Nos. 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, and 14 are quite new; these are grafted on Boursault stocks, six-inch stems, in pots, six-inch stems, in pots, the remainder are on their own roots in pots.]
Damask Perpetual.
16. Ebène, deep crimson-purple — 10/6
17. Momus, very dwarf — 5/0
[No. 16 is the darkest perpetual Rose known. These are also grafted on Boursault stocks, six-inch stems.]
Bourbons.
18. Proserpine — 7/6
19. Edouard Defosses — 5/0
20. Madame Aubis — 7/6
21. Cardinal Fesch — 5/0
Chinese.
22. Madame Bréon — 3/6
[No. 22 is a superb Rose, with brilliant rose-coloured flowers, on very erect and stiff peduncles.]
For many other fine varieties T. RIVERS begs to refer to his Catalogue for 1842-3. Sawbridgeworth, Herts, April 6, 1843.
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