TORENIA ASIATICA. 



523 



who wish to succeed in growing tender 

 roses. 



I should also add that, with this dry sub- 

 soil, all tender roses are more hardy than 

 when planted in the common way ; and 

 that even the Tea roses stand the winter 

 here, in this way, with a slight covering in 

 winter. 



And now a word or two to beginners, 

 respecting a nice selection of everblooming 

 roses. I have had some years of experi- 

 ence in the matter, and venture to re- 

 commend the following sorts, as really 

 beautiful, and deserving of general atten- 

 tion : 



BouRBOK Roses, Souvenir de Malmai- 

 son, pale blush ; Princesse Clementine, vio- 

 let crimson ; Mrs. Bosanquet, waxy blush ; 

 Pourpre Fafait, crimson purple ; Madam 

 Desprez, bright rose ; Acidalie, white; Cor- 



nice de Seine et Marne, bright red ; Du- 

 mont de Courset, dark crimson ; Hermosa, 

 'pale rose; Compte d'Eu, bright red. 



Tea Roses. Devoniensis, large, cream 

 cnlonr \ Clara Sylvain, pure ivhiie; Gou- 

 bault, large rosy blush ; Josephine Walton, 

 piire ii:hite; La Sylphide, rosy buff; Man- 

 sais, buff and pink ; Princess Marie, rosy 

 pink ; Strombio, rosy ivhite ; Eliza Sau- 

 vage, pale sulphur. 



Noisette Roses. Aim'-e Vibert, snow 

 white; Chxom?L\.e\\^, fine yellow ; Jaune Des- 

 prez, rosy buff ; La Marque, ivhite; Le 

 Pactole, pale snlphur. 



China Roses. Lady Warrenden, pnre 

 ivhite; Madam Breon, bright rce ; Eugene 

 Beauharnois, rich crii7ison ; Cels, blush ; 

 Agrippina, deep crimson. Yours, truly. 

 An Amateur. 



New-York. April, 1849. 



ASIATIC, OR LARGE FLOWERED TORENIA, 



[The following account of a new plant, 

 said to bear the most beautiful of all blue 

 flowers, will interest our floricultural read- 

 ers. It has just been introduced by some 

 of our leading plant growers. Ed.] 



To this pretty genus of plants we have 

 recently had some accessions, which will 

 become valuable ornaments of our gardens. 

 The best, in every respect, is that of which 

 an engraving is here introduced : nothing 

 can exceed it in the richness and the soft- 

 ness of its colouring. 



In noticing this plant on a former occa- 

 sion, [Annals of Horticulture, ii. 553,) we 

 took the opportunity of expressing a doubt 

 whether the statement that the plant was 

 an annual was strictly correct. The state- 

 ment was made in the Botanical Magazine, 

 where a beautiful figure of it was published 

 last year. Nothing in the appearance of 

 the plant, at the time our notice above re- 

 ferred to was written, would seem to war- 

 rant the belief that the plant was annual. 



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Fig. 5.5. — Torenin Asiatica. 



and our farther experience of it does but 

 confirm our former supposition : hundreds 

 of plants raised from cuttings last year, 



