Sombreuil.—A strong grower, with flowers of a pale straw color. Souvenir d'un Ami.-The queen of the tea-scented roses, and will rank the very first among them. Its habit is good, it blooms freely, and its large and beautifully imbricated flowers, when open, much resemble in form those of Souvenir de Malmaison. Its color is a delicate salmon, shaded with rose, and its general character highly recommends it as first-rate in every respect. Hibberd claims to have produced flowers from this variety eleven to twelve inches in circumference when fully expanded. Souvenir de Leveson Gower.-Of a salmon color. Triomphe de Guillot fils.—A white rose, clouded with flesh color, and shaded with yellowish salmon. Vicomtesse de Cazes.-A fine yellow, and free blooming rose. White Tea. A well-cupped, fragrant, pure white rose. In the preceding list, we have given some of the best varieties of the Tea Rose, and trust the amateur will find no difficulty in making a selection. Many are pillar roses; and these, so trained, would be beautiful objects on a lawn, either singly, or in groups of three to a dozen. Where the height of the pillars can be gently graduated to the highest in the centre, the effect will be very fine. Many of the luxuriant growing varieties can be trained upon a common pale fence, and will cover it with flowers and foliage the whole season. Straw can be easily thatched over to protect them from the severity of winter, or bass mats would be still better. There is another very beautiful mode of cultivating the most delicate of these teascented roses, which we have never seen adopted, but which we are confident would produce a very fine effect. A large three or four gallon pot should be procured, and painted green on the outside; a locust post should then be obtained. some three or four inches in diameter, and five to twelve feet in height, according to the usual length of the shoots of the variety of rose to be planted. Upon the top of this post can be placed a circular or square piece of board, the diameter of the bottom of the pot. The post should then be planted firmly in the ground and ́painted green. Fill the pot with rich soil, as directed in a preceding chapter; plant in it one or two roses of pillar varieties, and place it on the top of the post. The surface of the soil should then be covered with moss, and if the sides can also be covered, the good effect will be enhanced. The plants, if strong, will soon throw out long, graceful shoots, which, drooping to the ground, will hide the pot and post, and present the appearance of an everblooming weeping tree of great beauty. If a pyramid is desired, wires can be carried from the top of the post to the ground, some two or three feet from its base, and the shoots trained down these. We can imagine few things more beautiful than Chromatella and Solfaterre, growing and blooming in this way. MACARTNEY ROSES. The Macartney rose was brought from China to England by Lord Macartney, in 1793. Its habit is luxuriant, and its foliage is more beautiful than that of any other rose, its leaves being thick, and of a rich, glossy green. It commences blooming about midsummer, and its flowers, with a fragrance like the perfume of an apricot, succeed each other without interruption till the first frosts, while the leaves remain till the very latest. Although as hardy as the hardiest of the China Roses, it would be better in this latitude to give it the same protection as recommended for the China. It is one of the most desirable roses for beds or borders. When covering the whole ground, and kept well pegged down, its rich, glossy foliage, gemmed with fragrant flowers, produces a beautiful effect. The varieties of this rose are very few, but the best two are the following: Alba odorata.-A vigorous growing rose, with very rich and beautiful foliage. Its fragrant flowers are creamcolored, and, when in bud, are very beautiful. It has stood the last three winters uninjured in our grounds, without protection, and is a very beautiful and desirable variety. It is classed by Rivers as a Microphylla, but it so little resembles that rose, and is so decidedly Macartney in its character, that we place it with the latter. Maria Leonida.-A very beautiful, but not entirely double variety, as its stamens can sometimes be seen, which, however, give a graceful appearance. Its flowers are finely cupped, and pure white, with a tinge of blush at the base of the petals. MICROPHYLLA ROSES. This species, originally from the Himalayan Mountains, was first brought to Europe in 1823. Its foliage is small and singular, and its growth is very robust. Its flowers bloom from midsummer till frost, and have a striking appearance; they are very double, with a calyx of which the small, bristling sepals give the opening bud the appearance of a small chestnut. The plant is hardy, and has endured the winter in our grounds for the past twenty years without protection, losing only a portion of the tops. of its shoots. Of the several varieties, one of the best is Rubra, which has very double and cupped flowers, of a blush and often rose color, with a deep red centre. MUSK ROSES. The Musk Rose grows naturally in Persia and other Eastern countries, where it attains the height of a small tree, and is doubtless the rose which has been celebrated by Eastern poets. It is also found in India, where it is probably the species used for making attar. In this latitude it is quite hardy, and we have a plant of the old White Musk in our grounds, that has braved the severity of more than twenty winters. It has made in one season shoots more than six feet long, and in our Southern States, more than double the growth would probably be obtained. The blossoms appear in clusters, and commencing later than any other rose, continue abundant throughout the season. The Old White Cluster has been widely distributed throughout the country, and is deservedly a favorite. The best two varieties, however, are the following: Eponine.-A cupped and very double variety, with the peculiar musk fragrance. It is pure white, and a very pretty rose. Princess of Nassau.-A luxuriant growing and very fragrant variety, and would make a good pillar rose. It blooms in large clusters of cupped flowers, changing from yellow to cream color as they open. ROSES THAT BLOOM ONLY ONCE IN THE SEASON. GARDEN ROSES. For want of a better, we use this term to designate all those roses that bloom only once in the season, and that strongly resemble each other in habit and flower. It includes those classes called, by rose-growers, French, Provence, Hybrid Provence, Hybrid China, Hybrid Bourbon, White and Damask Roses. On a preceding page, we have given our opinion respecting classification, but we wish it to be fully understood, that we do not deny the existence of clearly distinctive characters in the true French, Provence, Damask, etc., but simply assert that the lines of difference between |