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'Célimène' rose Reviews & Comments
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Gardeners' Chronicle; May 27, 1843. The Rose Garden by Z.
"The remaining group of Bourbon Roses comprise some fine varieties, remarkable for their dwarf and rigid habits. Of these, Augustine Lelieur is one of the oldest, and in its way, perhaps one of the most beautiful; its flowers are only semidouble, but they are so erect and so brilliant in colour, more particularly in autumn, that it always attracts notice. Latifolia is so much like it, as scarcely to be distinguished except by its petals being a little crimpled; Madame Nerard, Celimene, and Timocles, are also of the same rigid habit, with flowers of the palest *silvery* blush--a term which will perhaps convey that peculiar glossiness which seems to lay on the surface of the petals;
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