loam, it grows very vigorously, blooms profusely, and seeds freely, and if the flowers are judiciously fertilized it cannot fail to yield estimable varieties. Valentine is a large and beautiful new variety, full double, incarnate with a protuberant centre. To these some varieties of extraordinary beauty have been added, among which Eliza Sauvage, a fine strawcolored rose, of rather a deeper tinge than the Yellow Tea, with flowers very large and double, richly deserves cultivation. Duchesse de Mecklenberg is of a more creamy yellow, and perfect in form, and really a most beautiful rose. Lutescens Grandiflora is one of the largest of these yellow Tea Roses; its flowers are cupped, very large, and deep yellow toward the centre. Marechal Vallée is a rose-colored Tea rose, with flowers very large and double; this is a new and first rate variety. Devoniensis takes a high rank; it is not yellow, as was at first supposed, but of a pale straw, changing to a fine creamy hue, and remarkably fragrant; when cultivated highly it produces flowers of a great size; in open culture it should have a rich soil and ample space, and it will then grow most vigorously; for forcing this is a most valuable rose. Comte de Paris is also a magnificent variety, with finely cupped flowers of pale rose color. This expands its flowers freely in any situation, and is very hardy and robust. Josephine Malton, equally hardy and robust, is a rose of the first class, having large and elegantly formed cupped flowers; color creamy white. Adam is one of the very largest roses in this family: its flowers are not so regularly shaped as the above; color rose, very fragrant, and showy. Moiré, a fawn colored variety, shaded with cream and rose, has petals of remarkable substance, so that it withstands heat much better than most of this class it is a first rate and beautiful rose. Safrano, like the old yellow Tea Rose, is most beautiful in bud, or, half expanded, its flowers being of the brightest saffron; but, when fully opened and exposed to the sun, they soon fade; it blooms very freely and in clusters, and is a most desirable acquisition. As these interesting roses require somewhat more care in their culture than most others, I will endeavor to give explicit directions, so as to insure success. One most essential point for plants that are grown on their natural roots, is to select ground that is warm and rich, with a dry bottom, and in a somewhat sheltered position; as soils that are wet and cold are very uncongenial. The preparation of the soil need not differ in any wise from that of other roses further than is necessary to render it light and warm; and in this the plants may be placed about two and a half feet apart. In severe frosty weather which usually commences here in November, protect the plants by binding the tops in straw and raising the earth around them, or shorten their tops and cover them with leaves, sand or mould; another eligible mode is to protect the plants with branches of cedar, pine, or any of the spruces, or any other light spray that will keep off the severe frost. With this treatment they will seldom receive any injury from our severest winters, and will bloom in great perfection throughout the whole summer. If it is preferred to cultivate plants of this class that are budded on the Dog Rose or Blush Boursault, they will then flourish best in a more moist soil; and they can be arranged in beds of several rows each, placing those on the shortest stocks in front and allowing the rows to rise in succession, so as to form a bank of foliage and flowers. Grafted or budded plants when well established will in general brave our severest winters, but it is most prudent to bind their heads in straw, or to give to each an oiled paper cap; this latter mode is practiced in the north of Italy and France with great success to protect their tender roses and other plants. In the more northern climates the budded roses as well as those on their natural roots, can be planted in a cellar or conservatory, or be buried in layers of sand or light mould at a depth of four feet, where frost cannot reach them, whence they can be removed at the first opening of spring, and planted in their appropriate positions in the garden. This removal does them no injury, and they appear to flourish and bloom quite as well as those not subjected to removal. At the south of the Potomac there is of course no winter protection required. Some of the varieties are much more robust and vigorous than others, and equally as beautiful as those of more delicate habits; it will therefore be scarcely worth while to grow any but what are of known hardihood and vigor. I have pointed out some of these in my notices, but time can only make a knowledge of their habits more perfect. Budded plants of Tea-scented roses force very well, and when worked on neat stems about one foot in height, they form beautiful plants; they do not require to be established one year in pots, for if only potted in October or November, and forced with a gentle heat in January and February, they will bloom finely; in March and April the extreme beauty of their foliage and flowers will amply repay the attention given to them, as they have a peculiar softness and delicacy of appearance when forced and growing luxuriantly. With attention, some very beautiful roses of this family may be originated from seed, but the plants must be trained against a south wall, or in some other sheltered position, and in a warm dry soil. For yellow roses, Lutescens grandiflora and the Duchesse de Mecklenberg may be planted with the Yellow Tea, which abounds in pollen; some fine roses, almost to a certainty must be raised from seed produced by such fine unions: for the sake of curiosity a few flowers of the above might be fertilized with the Double Yellow or Rosa Harrisonii. The Yellow Tea bears seed abundantly, but it has been found from repeated experiments, that a good or even a mediocre rose is seldom or never produced from it; yet if fertilized with the Harrisonii; something original may be realized. Gigantesque and Hardy Tea planted with Prince Esterhazy, would produce seed of fine quality, from which large and bright rose-colored varieties might be expected. Archiduchesse Thérèse and Duchesse de Cazes, planted with Bride of Abydos, would give pure white Tea Roses; and Mansais with Dremont would probably originate first rate fawn-colored roses; but the central petals of Mansais should be carefully removed with tweezers or plyers, as its flowers are too double for it to be a certain seed-bearer. Bélisaire, which is a hybrid, approaching very near to the China Rose, should be planted with William Wallace, as fine and large Crimson Tea roses are still wanting. THE FAIRY OR MINIATURE ROSE. Rosa Lawrenceana. In the botanical publications, this curious little rose is said to have been introduced from China in 1810, and botanists have made it a species; but Mr. Rivers considers it only a dwarf seminal variety of the Common China Rose, and holding the same relative position to that rose, that the Rose de Meaux and Pompone Roses do to the common Rosa centifolia. He may be correct, but I consider the point as not yet fully settled in the present case. Many plants that have been long under cultivation have a tendency to produce sometimes from seed, these pigmy likenesses of themselves: among these little "faerie queens," Caprice des Dames is a pretty morsel of beauty with vivid rose-colored shaded flowers. Gloire des Lawrenceas is one of the prettiest of the tribe; its flowers are of a dark crimson. Jenny and Lilliputienne are both of them bright-colored and pretty roses. Master Burke, the most diminutive of all this class, was originated by Mr. J. Feast; the whole plant when in bloom with full double flowers, not occupying a space of over two inches in diameter, and the same in height; it is an object of curiosity only. Nigra has not black flowers, but they are of the darkest crimson, and very pretty. This was named by some florist with great exaggeration, and was not done wilfully to deceive, but is given as descriptive of what he wishes the flower to be, rather than of what it really is. Brugmansia sanguinea is a case in point; and many other sanguineas and coccineas might be mentioned, in which the colors of the flowers which bear these imposing names approach to any thing rather than blood or scarlet. To return to Roses; Pallida is the only variety in this division approaching to white. Its flowers, when they first open, are nearly of pure white, but they soon change. to a pale flesh color: this is rather a delicate rose, seeming very impatient of cold and damp. Petite Laponne, or La Laponne, is a brilliant little rose, quite worthy a place in the group. Pompone, or Indica minor, is the oldest and largest flowering variety and more than double the size of the others; it is blush and pretty, blooming in profusion. Pompone Bijou is of a bright roseate hue, very much resembling La Miniature, but of a deeper shade. Pretty American is a very diminutive variety, not exceeding six to eight inches in height. Retour du Printemps is different from all the others; its pretty little flowers being surrounded by |