and superior varieties. Antonine d'Ormois is a fine free-growing variety, with flowers large, of the most perfect shape; colour a delicate blush. Cerise superbe is one of the most brilliant in colour in this class; its flowers approach to scarlet; they are quite double, and in shape perfectly beautiful. Columella is also a rose deserving a high eulogium. Generally its flowers are of a bright pink, beautifully shaded on their margins, with blush; occasionally it produces self-coloured flowers, but is always a first-rate and remarkably distinct variety. Kean is now become a wellknown rose, remarkable for its constancy, for it is always beautiful; in size it is first-rate, in shape quite perfection; colour bright reddish crimson, in some seasons approaching to scarlet. Latour d'Auvergne is another of these most perfect roses, worthy of a place in every rose-garden; colour deep crimson, habit most robust and vigorous. Letitia, of a beautiful veined deep rose-colour, is equally valuable as a show rose, for in all seasons it is invariably perfect in shape. Shakspere is a fine shaded rose; in most seasons this beautiful variety shows a brilliant red centre, having a charming effect. Schombrunn and Triomphe de Jaussens are also brilliant crimson roses, quite perfect in shape, and most constant and beautiful. There are yet many other self-coloured roses in this family, of equal beauty, but of which it is impossible to give descriptions without a sameness

which would be tedious to the reader. In the Catalogue of 1843 accurate descriptions are given, which, though brief, are correct. To variegated roses of this class one has been added most especially deserving of notice; this is Eillet parfait, a rose raised in the West of France, and given out to the world before its qualities were appreciated. It is a hybrid between the Damask and the French rose, so exactly like a carnation in its beautifully-striped flowers as scarcely to be distinguished from one: its ground colour is pale blush, striped distinctly with dark red and crimson, no other variegated rose approaching it in beauty. One or two pretty varieties of Rosa tricolor have lately been originated. Tricolor d'Orléans is the most distinct of these: its flowers are of a peculiar vivid, shaded red, striped with white. A very pretty marbled rose, called Modeste Guérin, is also worthy of notice, as some of its petals are of a bright rose-colour, others nearly white. Lavoisier, a new rose, is remarkable for having its leaves variegated, and flowers spotted: this is a very double and finely-shaped rose. Madelen Friquet is also a perfectly-shaped rose, remarkably full of petals, something like that fine old French rose, Crivalis. This is a spotted variety; ground-colour, rose spotted with pale blush. Some of these spotted roses, more particularly those with a red or crimson ground, look as if they were disfigured by the weather, i. e. as if

rain had given rise to discolouration, but some are very distinct and pretty.

Most of the varieties of Rosa gallica are robust and hardy, and flourish equally as bushes on their own roots, grafted or budded on short stems, or as standards; but they cannot be recommended for tall standards, as their growth is too compact to be graceful. To grow them fine for exhibition as single blooms, or "show-roses," the clusters of buds should be thinned early in June, taking at least two-thirds from each; manure should also be laid round their stems on the surface, and manured water given to them plentifully in dry weather. With this description of culture, these roses will much surpass any thing we have yet seen in this country. To prolong their season of blooming, two plants of each variety should be planted; one plant to be pruned in October, and the other in May. These will be found to give a regular succession of flowers. In winter pruning, shorten the strong shoots to within six or eight buds of the bottom; those that are weak cut down to two or three buds.

To raise self-coloured French roses from seed, they should be planted in a warm, dry border, sloping to the south, in an open, airy situation. The shade of trees is very pernicious to seed-bearing roses; and, in planting roses for the purpose of bearing seed, it must be borne in mind that it will give great facility to their management if the

plants are planted in pairs, close to each other; accident will then often do as much as art in fertilising them; thus the Woodpigeon Rose may be planted with and fertilised by the Tuscany, La Globuleuse with Comte de Murinais, Oriflamme with Assemblage des Beautés, Vesta with Feu Turc, Jean Bart with Princess Victoria, Superb Tuscany with Leopold, La Majestueuse also with the latter. All these roses bear seed, often without being fertilised, but the crop is almost certain if that operation is performed; and the above unions are likely to produce roses of decided colours and first-rate qualities.

To raise variegated roses the following, which also bear seed freely, should be selected and planted as before directed:-Aglae Adanson with Anacreon, the Village Maid with Duc d'Orléans, Tricolor and Tricolor Pompon also with the Village Maid. This last union would probably produce some pretty striped roses.

Berlèse may also be planted with Seguier, Duc d'Orléans with André Thouin, and the Leopard Rose with Anacreon: these would most likely give pretty spotted roses. Picotée might be fertilised with the Village Maid, and, if seed could be procured, some fine varieties must be the result; but the central small petals should be removed with a pair of tweezers from the former rose, when its flowers are half expanded, as they are too much crowded to allow it to bear seed. Clear white and

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crimson striped roses are yet desiderata, as those we possess are inconstant. The Tricolor Rose fertilised with Globe Hip, which abounds in pollen, will be an experiment worth trying.

The Tuscany Rose, which is a most convenient variety for imparting dark colours, as it abounds with pollen more than any cultivated rose, should be planted in every rose seminary.

HYBRID PROVENCE ROSES.

These beautiful roses are exactly intermediate between the French and the Provence Rose, partaking, almost in an equal degree, of both parents. They have upon the long and graceful shoots of the Provence the close and more dense foliage of the French rose; and, in some of the varieties, the pale and delicate colouring of the first is enlivened by the rich and deep crimson hues of the latter. The origin of these roses may be soon attested; for, if the Single Moss, or Provence Rose, is fertilised with the farina of Rosa gallica, Hybrid Provence roses will be produced, agreeing in every respect with the above description. Among the most superior varieties is Agnes Sorel, a delicate fresh-coloured rose, very double and finely-shaped; Amelie Guérin is evidently from