the growth of others during the summer to bloom the following season. When the tree is very vigorous one or two of the shoots that have bloomed the preceding summer may be left, the blooming spikes shortened, and they will sometimes give autumnal flowers. This treatment may be applied to Madame Schulz and Isabella Gray, if they prove to be shy bloomers. The Cloth of Gold Rose flourishes remarkably well in Jersey, where I have heard of some very fine trees. As standards, Noisette Roses require but little culture; the principal care is to be prompt in cutting off the decayed and decaying clusters of flowers during the blooming season; and, in March, to thin out their superfluous branches. The Tea-scented Noisettes are, however, too tender for this culture, unless in warm situations. In a garden at Upper Clapton, near London, is a standard Noisette Desprez, about fifteen years old. It is a magnificent tree. For ornamenting wire fences, the Dwarf Noisette Roses are nicely adapted, as they can be trained with great facility, and they will form, in such situations, a blooming boundary for at least four months in the year.

Raising Varieties from Seed.

But few of the Noisette Roses will bear seed in this country; the following, however, if planted against a south wall, and carefully fertilised, would

probably produce some interesting varieties. The object should be to obtain dark crimson varieties with large flowers, and for this purpose Fellenberg should be fertilised with Gloire de Rosomène. Solfaterre with the Tea Rose, Vicomtesse de Cazes, would probably give yellow varieties, and these would be large and fragrant, as in Lamarque and Jaune Desprez. In these directions for procuring seed from roses by fertilising, I have confined myself to such varieties as are almost sure to produce it; but much must be left to the amateur, as many roses may be made fertile by removing their central petals, and, consequently, some varieties that I have not noticed may be made productive.

THE MUSK ROSE.

(ROSA MOSCHATA.)

Rosier Muscate.

THE White Musk Rose is one of the oldest inhabitants of our gardens, and probably more widely spread over the face of the earth than any other rose. It is generally supposed that the attar of roses is prepared in India from this species, and that this is also the rose of the Persian poets,*

*The following anecdote is narrated by the late Sir John Malcolm in his sketches of Persia. I have, moreover, heard it

in the fragrant groves of which they love to describe their 'bulbul,' or nightingale, as enchanting them with its tuneful notes. The probability that this is the famed rose of Persia is strengthened by the fact that it is much more fragrant in the evening, or in the cool weather of autumn, than at any other time or season, and probably in the hot climate of Persia, only so in the coolness of night, when nightingales delight to sing. A recent traveller also remarks that the roses of Persia are remarkably small and fragrant. There are, doubtless, many seminal varieties of the species; their flowers differing in colour, but possessing the leading features of the original. Olivier, who travelled in the first six years of the French republic, mentions a rose tree at Ispahan, called the Chinese Rose Tree,' fifteen feet high, formed by the union of several stems, each four or five inches in diameter. Seeds from this tree were sent to Paris, and produced the common Musk Rose. It seems therefore possible and probable, that this has been the parent of nearly all

from his own lips, told in his peculiar spirited manner while he resided here. 'A breakfast was given to us at a beautiful spot near the Hazâr Bágh, or thousand gardens, in the vicinity of Shiraz; and we were surprised and delighted to find that we were to enjoy this meal on a stack of roses. On this a carpet was laid, and we sat cross-legged like the natives. The stack, which was as large as a common one of hay in England, had been formed without much trouble from the heaps of rose leaves, collected before they were sent into the city to be distilled.'

their garden roses; for, like most orientals, their habits are not, and have not been, enterprising enough to stimulate them to import roses from distant countries. Large and very old plants of the Musk Rose may sometimes be seen in the gardens of old English country houses.

Eponine is a pure white, and very double variety, one of the prettiest of the group. Princesse de Nassau is a distinct and good variety, very fragrant, and blooming in large clusters; the flower-buds, before they open, are nearly yellow, changing to cream-colour as they expand. The Ranunculus, or new White Musk, is merely an improved variety of the old or original Musk Rose, with flowers more double.

Rivers's Musk, raised here from Italian seed, is a pretty, free-blooming rose, with flowers of a rosy buff, and very fragrant.

Moschata Nivea, or the Snow Bush,' and one or two other roses from Nepaul, have the scent peculiar to this group; but as they bloom but once in the summer, and differ totally, in some other respects, from the true Rosa Moschata, I have not included them. For the culture of the roses of this division, that recommended for Noisette Roses, in beds and as standards, may be adopted, as their habits are very similar.

THE MACARTNEY ROSE.

(ROSA BRACTEATA.)

THE single Macartney Rose was brought from China, in 1795, by Lord Macartney, on his return from his embassy to that country. It now forms the original of a pretty family; but as it does not bear seed freely, even in France, fine varieties, as yet, are not abundant; its strictly evergreen and shining foliage is a beautiful feature; and I hope ere long to see numerous varieties, with double flowers of the same brilliant hues as our other fine roses possess. Time will prove; but I think it is not too much to anticipate that, ultimately, we shall not be satisfied unless all our roses, even the Moss Roses, have evergreen foliage, brilliant and fragrant flowers, and the habit of blooming from June till November. This seems to be an extravagant anticipation; but perseverance in gardening will yet achieve wonders. The Double (the old variety) was the first double Macartney Rose raised from seed: it is mentioned here to caution any one from planting it, as it is totally worthless, its flowers constantly dropping off without opening. Maria Leonida is now an established favourite: its fine bell-shaped flowers of the purest white, sometimes slightly tinged with pink towards their centre, and its bright red anthers peeping from among its central petals,