Marie de Bourgogne is double rose colored, spotted with incarnate. Josephine and Josephine Beauharnais must both be mentioned, as they are so often confounded: the first is a most robust grower, producing in large clusters flowers not very double, of a delicate pink; the latter has large globular flowers, very double, white, tinted with rosy buff. La Séduisante is most appropriately named; it is not a new variety, but a rose most perfect in shape and beautiful in color. Madame Campan 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. Petite Cuisse de nymphe is of small size, full double and incarnate hue. Pompon bazard is small, and of a delicate rose color. Pompon carnée, of ten erroneously called Pompon blanc, is of moderate size, full double, and incarnate. Princesse de Lamballe is one of the finest in this division, possessing all the characters of the species in its foliage, branches and flowers: these are of the purest white, and of the most perfect and beautiful shape. Queen of Denmark, an old but estimable variety, produces flowers of first rate excellence as prizeflowers so much was this esteemed when first raised from seed, that plants were sent from Germany to England at five guineas each. Sophie de Bavière is light purple, and full double. Sophie de Marsilly, a new variety, is a most delicate and beautiful mottled rose, with flowers very double and perfect in shape. Viridis, or Rose verte, is the farfamed green rose of France, which has several times been sent from that country as a great rarity: it is quite curious, its flowers being nearly green till fully expanded.

The varieties of this family form a beautiful group, not by any means gay and dazzling, but chaste and delicate, and contrast well with groups of the dark varieties of Rosa gallica and Hybrid China roses; they also make good stand

ards, often growing to a large size and uniting well with the stock; they always bloom abundantly and bear close pruning; in this respect they may be treated as recommended for the French roses.

HYBRID CHINA ROSES.

Rosa Indica hybrida.

THE superior varieties of this fine division give a combination of all that is or can be beautiful in roses; for, not only are their flowers of the most elegant forms and colors, their foliage of extreme luxuriance, but their branches are so vigorous and graceful, that perhaps no plant presents such a mass of beauty as a finely grown hybrid China rose in full bloom. They owe their origin to the China, Teascented, Noisette, and Bourbon roses, fertilized with the French, Provence, and other summer roses, and also to the latter crossed with the former; the seeds of such impregnated flowers, producing Hybrid China roses. These have, in many cases resulted from accident, but latterly from the regular fertilizing process, as mules or hybrids have been raised from well known parents.

In England, but few varieties have been originated; as the common China rose does not in general ripen its seeds sufficiently for germination. The parents of Brown's Superb Blush, which is an English hybrid, was the old Teascented rose, Rosa indica odorata, impregnated with some hardy summer rose. Rivers's George the Fourth is also an English rose; but as this came by accident, its origin is not so well ascertained. Rosa Blairii is also English, and raised from the yellow China, impregnated with some variety of hardy rose. All these roses have the true charac

ters of the family leaves smooth, glossy, and sub-evergreen: branches long, luxuriant, and flexible. They give a long continuance of bloom, but they never put forth secondary or autumnal flowers, except in a few insulated cases. This is a most peculiarly distinguishing trait, and an interesting fact. Impregnate a Bourbon, China, or Noisette rose, all abundant autumnal bloomers, with the farina of a French or a Provence rose, and you entirely take away the tendency to autumnal blooming in their offspring. They will grow vigorously all the autumn, and give a long, but not a secondary series of flowers. Some of these Hybrid China roses produce seed abundantly, which is rather a remarkable feature, as so few hybrid plants are fertile. It has been asserted that hybrids produced from the French rose, impregnated with the China rose, are not of such robust and vigorous habits as when the China rose is the female parent; but this is an assertion scarcely borne out by facts, for the exceptions are numerous, and like many other variations in roses and plants in general, they seem to bid defiance to systematic rules. By scientific cultivators the roses of this division have been divided into four classes, Hybrid China, Hybrid Noisette, Hybrid Bourbon, and Uncertain Hybrids.

Those that have been raised from Noisette roses have a tendency to produce their flowers in clusters; those from Bourbon roses have their leaves thick, leathery, and round; those from the Tea-scented have a delicate and grateful scent; but all have those distinguishing family traits as before given, and accordingly they group beautifully. It is a difficult task to point out the best in each of these divisions as they are nearly all well deserving of cultivation. However, by making a few remarks, such as cannot so well be given in a descriptive catalogue, I may perhaps be able in some measure, to direct the choice of amateurs to those most worthy their notice.

I will commence with those classed in the English Catalogues and my own as Hybrid China, and in the French Catalogues as Hybrides de Bengale Roses.

Adolphe Cachet is a variety not much known; it is well formed, very double and distinct. A Fleurs blanches, Blanchefleur, White Climbing China, or White Climbing Unique is full double, pure white, and blooms freely and profusely. Anisette, or Odeur d'Anisette is a beautiful roseate variety, fragrant and highly esteemed. Assuerus is carmine, full double, and beautiful. Auzou is large and of a crimson hue. Belle Bouquet assimilates to A Fleurs blanches, but the flower is of more compact form and the growth is more slow. Belle Therèse is a dark shaded crimson, quite fragrant, and in clusters. Beranger is light red, full double, protuberant, and very beautiful.

Bonne Geneviève, or Beauté ethérial. This rose has, been sold extensively under the latter name, and described as "purple margined with crimson." It is a most beautiful and perfectly imbricated rose, of large size, full double, and of a violet crimson color. Brennus, the Brutus of some collections: and sometimes called Queen Victoria in South Carolina, is a very superb rose, and will form a finer object as a pillar rose* or standard than as a bush; its luxuriant shoots must not be shortened too much in the winter pruning, as it is then apt to produce an abundance. of wood, with but very few flowers. It often puts forth branches in one season from eight to ten feet in length; if these are from a dwarf, and are fastened to a wooden or iron stake, and not shortened, the following season they will form a pillar of beauty but rarely equalled. Blairii,

* All the roses to which this term is applied make very long and flexible shoots, well adapted for training up columns, thus forming a pillar of

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is a very distinct and unique variety, so impatient of the knife, that if pruned at all severely, it will scarcely put forth a flower: it is perhaps better as a pillar rose, than grown in other mode, as it shoots ten or twelve feet in one season, and its pendulous clusters of flowers which are produced from these long shoots unshortened, have a beautiful effect on a pillar. Beauty of Billiard is, of all roses, the most glowing and beautiful: its color is described in the catalogues as scarlet; but it is rather a fiery crimson, so vivid that it may be distinguished at a great distance. This rose also requires care in using the knife; the extreme tips of the branches may be cut off, and some of them thinned out; it will then bloom in great perfection, but care must always be taken in winter pruning to leave its shoots nearly their full length. Becquet is a pretty distinct dark crimson flower, very double and well shaped. Belle Marie is a first-rate rose, finely shaped, and a good show-rose. Belle Parabère is a very remarkable variety of inconceivable luxuriance; its flowers are very large it will grow in good soils, as a standard, soon forming a large umbrageous tree. Catel is one of our finest dark roses, very double, and finely shaped, quite worth the notice of the amateur. Camuzet carnée is a rich rose color, very magnificent and highly fragrant. Celicel is large, rosy blush, seeds freely, and is therefore suitable for hybridizing. Cerisette is small, bright red, neat and pretty. Cesonie is large and bright crimson. The three varieties last named have now been superseded by newer varieties. Charles Louis, No. 1, is large, a bright deep cherry color, exceedingly splendid. Charles Louis, No. 2, is small, of ranunculus form, rich roseate blush. Coccinea superba, or "Vingt neuf Juillet," is a rose alike beautiful in its flowers and foliage; in early spring its leaves and shoots are of a most vivid red, and this appearance they retain the greater part of the summer; its flowers are brilliant in