Emile, Eugène Hardi, and Mrs. Bosanquet are all beautiful roses of their class; their colours are all of the most delicate blush or flesh colour. Augustine Hersent, although not a new rose, is not enough known; it is one of the very finest bright rose-coloured China Roses we possess, and of most hardy and luxuriant habits. Fénélon (Desprez) is a deep rose-coloured variety, with erect clusters of flowers, which are large and very double. Prince Charles and Eugène Beauharnais are two Luxembourg* roses of great excellence; their flowers are large and globular, of a fine rosy red: the latter is the deeper in colour.

In cultivating China Roses but little care is required, as most of them are quite hardy; all those marked S., as varieties of Rosa semperflorens, are adapted for the front edges of beds or clumps, as they are of more humble growth than the varieties of the Common. It must also be recollected that the latter are those alone adapted for standards. The varieties of Rosa semperflorens, though they will exist for several years on the Dog Rose stock, yet do not form ornamental heads, but become stinted and diseased; on the contrary, the varieties of the China Rose, as standards, particularly on short stems two to three feet in height, form magnificent heads swelling and uniting with the stock, and giving a mass of bloom from June to November; on tall stems I

Raised in the Gardens of the Luxembourg by M. Hardy.

have not found them flourish equally. About the end of March, not earlier, the branches of standards will require thinning out, and shortening to about half their length; in summer a constant removal of their faded flowers is necessary, and this is all the pruning they require.

Every well-appointed flower-garden ought to have a collection of China Roses worked on short stems in large pots; these, by surface manuring, and manured water, may be grown to a degree of perfection of which they have not yet been thought capable; and by forcing in spring, and retarding in autumn by removing their bloombuds in August, they will flower early and late, so that we may be reminded of that pleasant season "rose-tide" the greater portion of the year.

To succeed in making these roses bear and ripen their seed in this country, a warm dry soil and south wall is necessary; or, if the plants are trained to a flued wall, success would be more certain. If variegated China Roses could be originated they would repay the care bestowed. This is not too much to hope for, and, perhaps, by planting Camellia Panaché with Miellez, Cameléon with Camellia Blanc, and Etna with Napoléon, seeds will be procured from which shaded and striped flowers may reasonably be expected. Eugène Beauharnais with Fabvier would probably produce first-rate brilliant coloured flowers. Triomphante, by removing a few of the

small central petals just before their flowers are expanded, and fertilising them with pollen from Fabvier or Henry the Fifth, would give seed; and, as the object ought to be in this family to have large flowers with brilliant colours and plants of hardy robust habits, no better union can be formed. China Roses, if blooming in an airy greenhouse, will often produce fine seed; by fertilising their flowers it may probably be ensured. In addition, therefore, to those planted against a wall, some strong plants of the above varieties should be grown in pots in the greenhouse.

THE TEA-SCENTED CHINA ROSE.

(ROSA INDICA ODORATA.)

This

The original Rosa odorata, or Blush Teascented Rose, has long been a favourite. pretty variation of the China Rose was imported from China in 1810; from hence it was sent to France, where, in combination with the yellow China or Tea Rose, it has been the fruitful parent of all the splendid varieties we now possess. Mr. Parkes introduced the yellow variety from China in 1824; and even now, though so many fine varieties have been raised, but few surpass it in the size and beauty of its flowers, semi-double as they are; it has but a very slight tea-like scent,

but its offspring have generally a delicious fragrance, which I impute to their hybridisation with Rosa odorata. In France the yellow Tea Rose is exceedingly popular, and in the summer and autumn months hundreds of plants are sold in the flower markets of Paris, principally worked on little stems or "mi-tiges." They are brought to market in pots, with their heads partially enveloped in coloured paper in such an elegant and effective mode, that it is scarcely possible to avoid being tempted to give two or three francs for such a pretty object. In the fine climate of Italy Tea-scented Roses bloom in great perfection during the autumn: our late autumnal months are often too moist and stormy for them, but in August they generally flower in England very beautifully. I was much impressed in the autumn of 1835 with the effects of climate on these roses; for in a small enclosed garden at Versailles I saw, in September, hundreds of plants of yellow Tea Roses covered with ripe seeds and flowers. The French cultivators say that it very rarely produces a variety worth notice. The culture of Tea-scented Roses is quite in its infancy in this country, but surely no class more deserves care and attention; in calm weather, in early autumn, their large and fragrant flowers are quite unique, and add much to the variety and beauty of the autumnal rose garden.

Among the most distinct varieties known to

be worth culture, for many new Tea-roses from France will not flourish in our climate, are the following:

Aurore, an old but fine rose, a hybrid of the yellow China and Rosa odorata, and partaking of both, for its flowers are, when first open, of a delicate straw colour, soon changing to blush. Belle Hélène is a pale variety of the original Tea Rose, with flowers larger and more double; a distinct and good rose. Caroline, a pretty rose, with flowers very double, of a bright rose colour, and very perfect in their shape. Flon is a new and beautiful rose, a sort of fawncoloured blush; its flowers very large and fragrant. Fragrans, one of our oldest varieties, is but a very slight remove from the crimson China, but it has acquired, by being hybridised, the pleasing perfume of this family. Goubault is

a most excellent rose, as it is remarkahly robust and hardy, and will probably form a fine standard. Hardy, or Gloire de Hardy, is a most superb vivid rose of the largest size, of most luxuriant growth, and well calculated for a standard; this will be one of our popular Tea Roses. Hamon is also a very fine rose, but rather too delicate for the open borders: this is a changeable variety; sometimes its flowers are blush tinged with buff, and sometimes, when forced, they are of a deep crimson. Lyonnais is a very large pale flesh-coloured rose, hardy, and