Maurice Bernardin.-A good grower, with full, fine form, and bright cherry crimson color. One of the best. Merveille de Lyon.-Pure white, sometimes washed with satin-rose; very large, full, and cupped. A very fine new white Rose.

Paul Neyron. Very large, and perhaps the largest yet produced; deep rose; somewhat fragrant; very free bloomer.

Pierre Notting.-Very large, fine globular form; very deep crimson, with a violet shade; highly fragrant; free and one of the most valued among the dark roses.

Pæonia. Large to very large, full; red; fragrant; old, but valued for its fine foliage, and free flowering. Pride of Waltham.-A delicate flesh color, richly shaded with bright rose, very clear and distinct.

Prince Camille de Rohan.-Large and full. Its color is a velvety deep crimson maroon, clouded with red. One of the finest.

Queen of Queens.-Pink, with blush edges; large and full, of perfect form; and a true perpetual flowering rose, every shoot being crowned with a flower bud.

Rev. J. B. M. Camm.-Carmine rose; large, semiglobular; fragrant, and free blooming; superb.

Paul's Single Crimson and Single White.-Most charming roses, and worthy of attention.

Thomas Mills.-Very bright rosy carmine; large and full.

Victor Verdier.-Rosy carmine; a large, showy, free growing rose; good quality, and very effective.

White Baroness.-A white sport from Baroness Rothschild; flowers large and full.

REMONTANT SCOTCH.

Stanwell. Of Scotch parentage, and has the peculiar foliage and habit of the Scotch roses. Its flowers are large, blush colored, and rather flat. It is an abundant

and constant bloomer throughout the season, and its peculiar, delightful fragrance renders it very desirable.

REMONTANT MOSS.

Blanche Moreau.-Large, full, perfect form; pure white; buds and flowers produced in clusters and freely furnished with deep green moss.

Eugene de Savoie.—Of vigorous growth, with a large and full flower. It is an abundant bloomer, and very fragrant. Its color is a bright red.

Madame Edouard Ory.-A good autumn bloomer. It is globular, finely formed, and of a rich rose color. Madame William Paul.-Very bright rose; large, full, and of finely cupped form; flowers freely.

best perpetual moss roses yet introduced.

One of the

Mousseline.-White, lightly tinted with rose at opening, but changing to pure white; large and full; very free and a continuous bloomer.

Perpetual White.-A vigorous grower, double, and blooms in clusters.

Salet. A good autumnal bloomer, and a good grower. Its color is bright pink, changing to rose.

Soupert and Notting.-Very large, full, and globular; bright rose color; while not so "mossy as some others, its ever-blooming character and most exquisite fragrance give it a place in the first rank of its class.

BOURBON ROSES.

This class does not possess the hardiness of the Remontants, nor the free blooming properties of the Ben gals, Teas, and Noisettes, and therefore can never compete with the former for the North, nor with the latter for the South. In it, however, are varieties like Hermosa, Souvenir de Malmaison, and others, which are scarcely surpassed in any class. The Bourbon Rose has also qualities which make many varieties favorites. These qualities are its greater hardiness than the Tea Rose, its very thick,

leathery foliage, its luxuriant growth, its more constant bloom than the Remontants, and its thick, velvety petals, of a consistency to endure the summer's sun.

It was introduced into France by Jacques, head garden

er of the Duke of Orleans, at Neuilly, who received it in 1819 from Bréon, director of the Royal gardens in the Isle of Bourbon. The following account of its origin is given by Bréon, and is also mentioned by Rivers:

"At the Isle of Bourbon, the inhabitants generally inclose their land with hedges made of two rows of roses; one row of the common China Rose, the other of the Red Four Seasons. M. Perichon, a planter in the island, found in one of these hedges a young plant, differing very much from the others in its shoots and foliage. This he transplanted into his garden. It flowered the following year, and proved to be of a new race, and very different from the above two roses, which at that time were the only varieties known in the island."

Its resemblance to the Bengal Rose was, however, so strong, that it was soon considered a variety of that species. Its characteristics are, however, so entirely different from the Bengal, that we give it a separate place in our garden classification. To the French we owe nearly all the varieties of this class which have been produced from the original semi-double rose, or Bourbon Jacques, as it was called. Of these varieties, the following are distinct, and possess many charming qualities that cannot fail to gratify the amateur.

Acidalie. One of the best light roses, being sometimes light blush, and at others white. Its autumnal bloom is its best.

Appoline.—A vigorous grower; its color is rose and

pink.

Dr. Berthet.-Brilliant cherry red; large, full, and good.

George Peabody.-Medium, full, well formed; purplish crimson; fragrant; a moderate grower, but one of the best of its class.

Hermosa. An old variety, but still one of the very best of this group. Its form is cupped, very double and perfect, and no rose blooms more abundantly, either forced or in the open ground. Its color is delicate rose.

The plant is of medium growth, and well adapted for grouping or for planting in beds with Mrs. Bosanquet and Agrippina.

Marquise Balbiano.-Rose, tinged with silver; full, fine form.

Perle d'Angers.-Very pale rose, almost white; large and full, imbricated.

Queen of the Bourbons.-A very beautiful and delicate rose-colored variety, slightly tinged with buff. It is cupped, very fragrant, large, and double, and its petals are arranged with a beautiful regularity.

Queen of Bedders.-Medium, very full; rich crimson. Few recent roses have been so highly praised as this; evidently a useful free-blooming sort.

Souvenir de la Malmaison.-Altogether the most perfect and superb rose of this or any other class. It was originated by Béluze, a Frenchman. Its flowers are cupped, and of very perfect form, very double, with thick, velvety petals; they are of the largest size, often four to five inches in diameter, and their color delicate blush, with a rich tint of cream. Its large and very luxuriant foliage, compact habit, and flowers of exceeding beauty, render this one of the very finest roses known.

CHINA.

Agrippina. Though an old rose, this is still one of the best and most popular of its class. As a forcing rose, and for an abundance of bloom, it is largely cultivated by bouquet venders. It is cupped, beautifully formed, and of a rich, brilliant crimson, with a delicate white stripe in the center of each petal. It is one of the most hardy and desirable of the old China Roses.

Cels multiflora.-An abundant bloomer; its color is white, shaded with pink.

Daily Blush.-One of the oldest China Roses, but one