LUXEMBOURG is of a deep crimson, moderately double, and of growth nearly as vigorous as the last, with which the deep hue of its buds forms a striking contrast. MALVINA is a good rose, with clusters of pink flowers. ÉCLATANTE is of a deep pink, large, double, and well mossed. CoмTESSE DE MURINAIS is one of the best of the White Mosses. Its flowers, though not so double as the Old Moss, are large, and of the purest white; and the growth is very vigorous. The CRIMSON or TINWELL Moss somewhat belies its name; for its flowers are rather of a deep rose than crimson. It is, however, a beautiful variety. PRINCESS ADELAIDE is remarkable for the extreme vigor of its growth, and is evidently a hybrid of some of the Hybrid Bourbon or Hybrid China roses. It is admirably suited for a pillar or a wall, but requires a full sun, and, if closely pruned, will not bloom at all. It blooms in large clusters: the flowers are of a light glossy rose, very large and full; and, if not too closely pruned, they are very abundant. The WHITE BATH is an admirable White Moss, large and full in flower, and exquisite in bud. As it is of moderate growth, it will bear close pruning. PROLIFIC is a very beautiful variety, resembling the Old Moss. BARONNE DE WASSENAËR is a very vigorous rose, of a bright red, and flowering in clusters. CAPTAIN INGRAM

is of a dark, velvety purple. GLOIRE DES MOUSSEUSES is very large and double, and of a blush-color. ROSA BONHEUR is of a bright rose-color. NUITS D'YOUNG is of a very dwarfed growth, and small deep-purple flowers. VANDAEL is purple, edged with lilac.

The above afford excellent examples of the various characteristics of the family of the Mosses. Additions in considerable number are still made to it every year; but it is very rarely that any decisive improvement upon the old varieties is shown in the recent seedlings.

"Moss roses, when grown on their own roots, require a light and rich soil: in such soils, they form fine masses of beauty in beds on lawns. The varieties best adapted to this purpose are the Common Moss, the Prolific, the Luxembourg, the Crimson, and Lane's Moss. Plants of these are procurable at a moderate price; and, by pegging down their shoots with hooked sticks, the surface of the bed will be covered with a mass of foliage and flowers. They require the same severe pruning as the Provence Rose. To have a succession of flowers on the same bed, half of the shoots may be shortened in March, the remainder the beginning of May, pruning closely as recommended for the Provence roses. By this method, the blooming season may be prolonged from a fortnight to three weeks. They should have an abundant annual dressing of manure on

the surface in November, and the bed lightly stirred with the fork in February.

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"To raise Moss roses from seed is a most interesting employment for the genuine rose amateur; such a pleasing field is open, and so much may yet be done. The following directions will, I hope, assist those who have leisure, perseverance, and love for this charming flower. A plant of the Luxembourg Moss, or one of the Celina Moss, and one of the Single Crimson Moss, should be planted against a south wall, close to each other, so that their branches may be mingled. In bright, calm, sunny mornings, in June, about ten o'clock, those flowers that are expanded should be examined by pressing the fingers on the anthers. It will then be found if the pollen be abundant: if so, a flower of the former should be shaken over the latter; or, what perhaps is better, its flower-stalks should be fastened to the wall, so that the flower will be kept in an erect position. Then cut a flower of the Luxembourg Moss, strip off its petals with a sharp pair of scissors, and place the anthers firmly, but gently, upon a flower of the Single Crimson, so that the anthers of each are entangled: they will keep it in its position: a stiff breeze will then scarcely remove it. The fertilizing will take place without further trouble, and a fine hip full of seed will be the result. To obtain seed from the Luxembourg Moss, I need scarcely say that this operation must be reversed. A wall is not always necessary to ripen seed; for in dry soils, and airy,

exposed situations, the above Moss roses bear seed in tolerable abundance. The treatment of the hips, sowing the seed, and the management of the young plants, as applicable to all, has already been given."- Rivers.

THE DAMASK ROSE.)

Rosa Damascena.- Any deeply colored rose is popularly called a Damask; but the true Damask - the rose of Damascus is of various shades, from the darkest to the lightest. All these varieties have sprung from one origin, the wild rose of Syria, which was introduced into England in the year 1573, or, according to some writers, much earlier. It is this rose from which is made the rosewater of the East, and on this the Eastern poets and their Western imitators have lavished the wealth of their fancy. In poetry, indeed, the Damask Rose has woven more garlands than the Moss. Nor is it unknown to history, since the five hundred camel-loads of rose-water with which the Sultan Saladin purified the Mosque of Omar after it had been used as a Christian church were doubtless distilled from its leaves. But, without falling into an anachronism, it is hardly possible to claim for it, as some have done, the

honor of having been the renowned Red Rose of Lan

caster.

Both the Damask and the Provence roses are extensively cultivated in France and England for the purpose of making rose-water.

The Damask is very hardy, vigorous of growth, and abundant in bloom. Its shoots are full of spines, and its leaves of a light green. Its old original varieties are wholly eclipsed by those which the industry of the florist has produced from their seed. The following are among the best of these:

LA VILLE DE BRUXELLES is a very beautiful rose, of delicate waxy tint and vigorous growth. MADAME STOLTZ is of a pale straw or lemon color. MADAME SOETMANS is of delicate cream-color, tinged with buff. MADAME HARDY is a large and very full rose of the purest white. It has but one fault, that of sometimes showing a green bud in the centre. But for this, it would be almost unrivalled among white roses. LEDA is of a blush tint, edged

with lake.

There are but few new varieties of this family, as the double sorts do not bear seed freely.