period than any other rose in this group, and will form a good pillar rose or climber. It is an abundant bloomer, and its flowers are cupped, large, semi-double, and of a brilliant deep scarlet.

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.

Imperatrice Josephine.-A very beautiful variety, blooming in immense clusters of a delicate pink. Its form is cupped, and the very robust habit of the plant makes it a good pillar rose.

Joseph Gourdon.-A moderate grower and of a reddish flesh color. One of the best.

Madame Lacharme.-A new variety, of the same habit as the preceding. Its flowers are of a rich blush, inclining to white. It blooms in clusters of beautifully formed and double flowers.

Pierre de St. Cyr.-One of the best of its color, which is rosy pink.

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.

Sir Joseph Paxton.-A strong grower, and one of the hardiest. Its color is bright rose, tinged with crimson. 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 ROSES.

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 centre of each petal. It is one of the most hardy and desirable of the old China Roses.

Archduke Charles.-A fine cupped and hardy rose (in this class we always use hardy comparatively). Its color is rose, changing to crimson during expansion, and having frequently a beautiful carnation-like appearance.

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

Daily Blush.-One of the oldest China Roses, but one of the very best. There can be nothing more perfect than its half-expanded bud, of a light crimson, inclining to blush. It commences blooming among the earliest, and, if the old seed-vessels are picked off, will continue to bloom abundantly through the summer and autumn, even after severe frosts. It is one of the hardiest of the class, and if left in this latitude unprotected during the winter, will lose no more wood than it will be necessary to cut out in the spring. It grows freely, and making a stiff, upright bush, would be well adapted for a hedge-the winter performing the office of the shears. We recollect seeing at Genoa, in Italy, a beautiful hedge of this rose, which, even at that time, in midwinter, had not lost all its foliage. We can imagine few things more beautiful than a well-cultivated hedge of this rose, with its smooth,

glossy foliage, well sprinkled with the beautiful rubytinted buds.

Daily White. Very similar to the preceding, in everything but the color of its flowers, which are pure white. Like the other, its fully expanded flowers are inferior to many other varieties, but its half-blown buds are very perfect, and make it a desirable plant for the bouquetmaker.

Eugene Beauharnais.-Large and double; its color is bright, a deep scarlet crimson.

General Lamoriciere.-Bright scarlet crimson, and a free bloomer.

Le Phoenix.-Distinct, fragrant, and of a deep rose color.

Louis Philippe.-A strong grower, large, double and globular. Its color is dark crimson, with blush centre.

Madame Bréon.-One of the very best. Its flowers are very large and double, beautifully cupped, and of a brilliant rose color. Few of the old China Roses can surpass it.

Mrs. Bosanquet.-One of the most desirable of the old China Roses, and there are few in any other class that are superior to it. Its growth is luxuriant, and its superb cupped, wax-like flowers are of a delicate flesh-color, and are produced in the greatest abundance.

Queen of Lombardy.-Of good size, and its color is red, passing into purple.

Sanguinea.-Rich crimson flowers, glowing like rubies. It is a free bloomer, of dwarf habit, and makes the best bedding rose known.

NOISETTE ROSES.

Aimée Vibert.-One of the most beautiful of the Noisette or cluster-flowering roses. It blooms freely through

the season, is tolerably hardy, and produces an abundance of small, snow-white flowers, in fine clusters.

America. This has large and full flowers. Its color is creamy yellow.

Chromatella. A truly magnificent and splendid rose, raised at Angers (France), from Lamarque. It is of robust habit, and its luxuriant shoots would make it a fine pillar rose. Its leaves are large and glossy, with a beautiful, rich purple edge when young. The bud is of a rich cream color, but when the large, globular flower is fully expanded, its color is a brilliant and beautiful yellow, with petals whose thickness will endure the hottest sun without fading. When the plant is young, it is rather a shy bloomer, but when of some age, and in a good soil and location, nothing can exceed the magnificence of its superb flowers. In our grounds, it has endured our coldest winters, but it would be safer to protect it.

Caroline de Marniesse.-One of the hardiest. Its color is white, with a tinge of pink in the centre.

Celine Forestier.-A vigorous growing rose. One of the hardiest, and with a large, full flower. Its color is rich yellow.

Cornelia Koch.-This has a full and fine form. Its color is pale yellow.

Isabella Gray.-A large and full seedling of Chromatella, of a rich yellow.

Jeanne d'Arc.-A pure white rose, with a very fine form, and vigorous habit.

Lamarque.-A well-known and superb variety, whose very vigorous growth adapts it well for a pillar, or even for a climber, as in rich soils and favorable locations it will make shoots of fifteen feet in a season. When budded on a strong stock, few roses can surpass its large cupped and nearly white flowers, weighing down the

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stems with their weight. It is a fragrant and most desirable variety.

Madame Jouvain.-Bright rose, with a buff centre. It is very fragrant, and has a vigorous growth, adapting it for pillars.

Ophire. A medium-sized rose, of a very singular color, entirely different from any other rose known, being a bright salmon, almost saffron. It blooms in clusters, and its luxuriant habit would make it a good pillar rose.

Solfaterre. Another superb rose, of very much the same character. Its flowers are large and globular, inclining to flat, and their color bright lemon. When half opened, the buds are superb. Like Chromatella, (and Lamarque, the parent of both), its growth is very luxu riant. Rivers mentions a plant which threw out a shoot from a single bud eighteen feet in one season, and the next season was covered with flower-buds.

Triomphe de Rennes.-A fine rose, of large, full form, and canary color.

TEA ROSES.

Adam.-One of the finest tea-scented roses. Its flowers are cupped, very double and large, and of perfect form. It is very fragrant, and its color is a rich, glossy rose.

Abricoté.-Large and double; its color a pale fawn, with apricot centre.

Auguste Vacher.-Yellow, shaded with copper. Its form is large and full.

Barbot.-A very large, cupped rose, tea-scented, and of a beautiful fawn color.

Bougere. A very large, superb rose, one of the very best of the tea-scented varieties. Its form is cupped, and its color a rich, glossy, bronzed rose.