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Moussue Presque Partout, a singular variety, curiously mossed upon its 

 leaves and shoots ; and of Princess Alice, nearly white, free-flowering, 

 and much like (jomtesse de Murinais. But, as a rule, they soon 

 deteriorate on the Brier, and the amateur will best succeed in growing 

 them as I have advised with reference to the Common Moss, Celina 

 and White Bath I have not included in the preceding list, never having 

 grown them as standards, but they deserve attention — the first for its 

 exquisite crimson buds, the second as being our only really white 

 Moss-Rose, but of very delicate habit. 



Of the Moss-Roses called Perpetual, and deserving the name as 

 autumnal bloomers, Madame Edouard Ory and Salet are the only 

 specimens which I have grown successfully in my own garden, or ad- 

 m.ired elsewhere. The former is of a carmine, the latter of a light 

 rose, tint. 



All the Roses which I have selected in this chapter are desirable in 

 an extensive Rose-garden. To amateurs of less ample range or re- 

 sources I would commend, as the most interesting, the Common and 

 Miniature Provence, with the Common and the Crested Moss. 



S. Reynolds Hole. 



VINE DISEASE IW THE SOUTH OF FKANCE. 



Phylloxera vastatrix (J. E. Planchon).— Female specimens and their eggs, a and a, antennse ; 

 b and b, horns or suckers ; c, egg plainly visible in the body of the insect ; d, the egg ; /, 

 winged form of the insect. All greatly magnified. 



The following account of a new enemy to the Vine, translated from a periodical 

 published at Ghent (the 'Flore,' edited by Louis van Houtte), may not be un- 

 acceptable to the readers of the * Gardener. ' 



In some localities of the south of France the Vines are suffering from the 

 ravages of a destructive insect, which has lately been noticed for the first time. 

 M. E. A. Carriere has just published in the ' Revue Horticole ' an extract from 



