and much like Comtesse de Murinais. But, as a rule, they soon deteriorate on the Brier, and the amateur will best succeed in growing them as I have advised with reference to the Common Moss. Celina and White Bath I have not included in the preceding list, never having grown them as standards; but they deserve attention the first for its exquisite crimson buds, the second as being our only really white Moss-Rose, but of very delicate habit.

Of the Moss-Roses called Perpetual, and deserving the name as autumnal bloomers, Madame Edouard Ory and Salet are the only specimens which I have grown successfully in my own garden, or admired elsewhere. The former is of a carmine, the latter of a light rose, tint.

All the Roses which I have selected in this chapter are desirable in an extensive Rose-garden. To amateurs of less ample range or resources I would commend, as the most interesting, the Common and Miniature Provence, with the Common and the Crested Moss.

CHAPTER XI.

GARDEN ROSES-(continued.)

I COMMENCED my selection of garden Roses-that is, of Roses which are beautiful upon the tree, but not the most suitable for exhibition-with the Provence and the Moss, because these were the Roses which I loved the first. They had but few contemporaries alike precious to our eyes and noses in the garden of my childhood; - the York and Lancaster, the Alba, the Damask, the Sweet Brier, the old Monthly; and these also shall suggest, if you please, our route through the land of Roses.

First, then, with reference to the York and Lancasterthus called because it bears in impartial stripes the colours, red and white, of those royal rivals who fought the Wars of the Roses-although I cannot commend its flimsy flowers, as gaudily and as scantily draped as the queen of a ballet or burlesque, I must claim a place in the Rosary for a few

variegated Roses very superior to their prototype.

illet Parfait is so truly named, that a skilful florist, seeing a cut bloom of it for the first time, would only be convinced by a close inspection that it was not a Carnation but a Rose. With a clear and constant variegation of white and crimson stripes, it is marvellously like some beautiful Bizarre; and Perle des Panachées, white and rose, is almost as effective as another gay deceiver. Eillet Flammande and Tricolor de Flandres, though not so striking and distinct their triple colours, white, lilac, and red, being somewhat dingy and confused—are always curious, and sometimes pleasing. These variegated Roses are easily cultivated, growing freely on the Brier with liberal treatment and moderate pruning. They are affiliated in the catalogues to the family of Gallicas. But what are Gallicas?

"Gallica," responds the intelligent schoolboy, "is a Latin adjective, feminine gender, and signifying French." But can the intelligent schoolboy, or the still more intelligent adult, inform us why the Latin for French should be applied to this particular section only of the multitudinous Roses sent to us from France? "They who send," it may be answered, "make a special claim, for they call them

'Rosiers de Provins,' and Provins surely is in France, department Seine-et-Marne." Yes! but with every grateful recognition of the debt which we owe to French Rosarians, it is well known that in this instance the claim cannot be proved. The birthplace of the Rose called Gallica is unknown, disputed, like the birthplace of Homer. "It is from Asia," says one; "it is the Rose of Miletus, mentioned by Pliny." "It was first found," writes a second, "upon Italian soil." "It came from Holland," cries Tertius, "beyond a doubt, and Van Eden was the man who introduced it.”*

But I have asked this question with an ulterior view. It is time, I think, for some alterations in the nomenclature and classification of the Rose. When summer RosesRoses, that is, which bloom but once-were almost the only varieties grown, and when hybridisers found a splendid market for novelties in any quantities, new always and distinct in name, the subdivisions yet remaining in some

* The French Roses, so called, have all been derived from the original Tuscany. Van Eden and others of Haarlem raised all the early varieties in Holland; and the first man in France who succeeded in raising new varieties from them was Descemet, who resided at St Denis. Vibert bought his stock, and continued the raising of seedling Rose-trees.-Horticultural Magazine, i. 282.

of our catalogues were interesting, no doubt, to our forefathers, and more intelligible, let us hope, than they are to us. Let us believe that it was patent to their shrewder sense why pink Roses were called Albas, and Roses whose hues were white and lemon were described as Damask. Let us suppose that they could distinguish at any distance the Gallica from the Provence Rose, and that when they heard the words Hybrid China, instead of being reminded, as I am, of a cross between a Cochin and a Dorking fowl, they recognised an infinity of distinctive attributes which estrange that variety from the Hybrid Bourbon in the most palpable and objective form. Though it may be difficult for us to understand why the Persian Yellow, brought to England from Persia by Sir H. Willock, should have been promptly described as an Austrian Brier*—and we are a trifle perplexed to comprehend whence the latter, discovered first in Italy, derived its appellation-let us be sure that it was all plain, and clear as the light, to them.

But now that these summer Roses are no longer paramount-rapidly disappearing, on the contrary, before the superior and more enduring beauty of those varieties which

* The two Rose-Trees, it is true, are very similar in habit, but the nomenclature is "just a muddle a'toogether."