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Page 25
... Madame Cottin is a large and well - shaped rose , adapted for a show rose ; as is also Madame Dubarry , perhaps one of the very finest double roses known . These are both of the most vigorous THE SUMMER ROSE GARDEN . 25.
... Madame Cottin is a large and well - shaped rose , adapted for a show rose ; as is also Madame Dubarry , perhaps one of the very finest double roses known . These are both of the most vigorous THE SUMMER ROSE GARDEN . 25.
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... Madame de Goursac is a hybrid Noisette , blooming in immense clusters , and forming a very pretty standard . Monteau and Miaulis are both good dark roses ; but they are certainly surpassed by Miralba , which has recently been named ...
... Madame de Goursac is a hybrid Noisette , blooming in immense clusters , and forming a very pretty standard . Monteau and Miaulis are both good dark roses ; but they are certainly surpassed by Miralba , which has recently been named ...
Page 53
... Madame Laffay , " is much in- clined to give a second series of flowers ; this rose should be planted in a very warm border , or trained against a south wall with Bourbon Gloire de Rosomène , and if carefully fertilised with it some ...
... Madame Laffay , " is much in- clined to give a second series of flowers ; this rose should be planted in a very warm border , or trained against a south wall with Bourbon Gloire de Rosomène , and if carefully fertilised with it some ...
Page 56
... Madame Cam- pan is a hybrid departing a little from the characters of the species , but producing flowers of a bright rose finely mottled with white , of first - rate excellence . Princesse de Lamballe is one of the finest in this ...
... Madame Cam- pan is a hybrid departing a little from the characters of the species , but producing flowers of a bright rose finely mottled with white , of first - rate excellence . Princesse de Lamballe is one of the finest in this ...
Page 60
... Madame Hardy was raised from seed in the Luxembourg gardens , by Monsieur Hardy in 1832 ; this is not a pure Damask rose , as its leaves have scarcely any pubescence ; but a more magni- ficent rose does not exist , for its luxuriant ...
... Madame Hardy was raised from seed in the Luxembourg gardens , by Monsieur Hardy in 1832 ; this is not a pure Damask rose , as its leaves have scarcely any pubescence ; but a more magni- ficent rose does not exist , for its luxuriant ...
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Page 160 - Mrticipates (p. 87) that the day will come when all our roses, even moss-roses, will have evergreen foliage, brilliant and fragrant flowers, and the habit of blooming from June till November.