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comprise some of the most double, profuse flowering and brilliant colors : 

 Auretii — crimson, shaded maroon and black; Centifolia — old cabbage 

 rose, very double and sweet, rose color ; George the Fourth — fine double 

 crimson ; Glory of St. Helena — fine red, shaded purple ; Mad. Plantier — 

 white, in clusters, fine for cemeteries ; Mad. Russel — pink and crimson, 

 in clusters, late flowering; Mad. Stuart — light rose, very double and 

 sweet; Mad. Hardy — large fine white, one of the^best ; River's Tuscany — 

 type of the old Damask, maroon crimson, etc.; La Volupte — rich rose, 

 shaded fawn ; Persian Yellow — not strictly belonging in this class, but 

 indispensable, deep yellow, very double ; Triumphans — bright red, shaded 

 crimson. These are a small part of the list, but are some of the most 

 desirable; their places are rapidly being taken, however, by the Hybrid 

 Perpetuals, which are tolerably hardy, as well as being almost constant 

 bloomers. 



We will next notice the Moss roses, favorites with every one, though 

 sometimes, owing to our hot dry weather in spring, not as mossy as when 

 bloomed in a milder climate; the H. P., or Perpetual Mosses, are a com- 

 paratively new class, containing some fine varieties, originated by cross- 

 ing the old mosses with some of the free-blooming hybrid perpetuals ; 

 they are not quite as mossy as the original mosses, and bloom on the 

 ends of the young shoots through the summer and fall, making them very 

 desirable: A.deDalmas — pink, in clusters, free bloomer; James Veitch — 

 fine crimson, shaded maroon, free; Mad. Edward Ory — fine bright 

 crimson; Raphael — pink, in clusters, free; Palet — pink, good grower 

 and very free bloomer ; Perpetual White — white, in clusters, mossy in 

 bud ; June or Common Moss — these are the true old-fashioned moss 

 roses that were prized so highly in old times, and there are no more 

 beautiful flowers to-day, combining as they do beauty of form and 

 coloring, fragrance, and the beautiful setting of moss that the poets have 

 immortalized. Early morning is the time to see them at their best, 

 when laden with dew, and before the sun has exhaled the delightful per- 

 fume peculiar to them. Any on^who has not so seen them has not yet 

 enjoyed one of Nature's richest treats. 



Agatha — white, in clusters, beautiful in bud; Crested Moss (not 

 belonging to this class, yet would be readily taken for a moss) — pink, in 

 clusters ; Duchess de Istrie — pink, very hardy and vigorous ; Captain 

 Ingram — crimson purple, fine grower; Madam Wood — beautiful, bright 

 red ; Luxemburg — fine dark red, a favorite rose. 



I now notice a few climbing varieties, which for covering piazzas, 

 summer-houses, fences or a strong post set in the lawn, are very desirable., 



First on the list is Ayershire White — pure white, strong grower; 

 Baltimore Belle — blush white; Eva Corinne — light flesh; Gem of Prairies — 

 large, rosy-red; Queen of Prairies — strong grower, hardy, rosy-red; Seven 

 Sisters — changeable, rosy-red and crimson, in clusters; Tennessee Belle — 

 beautiful carmine, fragrant. 



I now come to the most popular class of roses grown, namely, the 

 Hybrid Perpetuals; comprising as they do so many exquisite kinds, with 

 a freedom of blooming unknown among the summer roses, it is not much 



