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Itosa — continued. 



Hybrid Tea Roses. 



Beauty of Stapleford, pink-rose, shaded centre ; large. Bed- 

 ford Belle, blush-white, tinted rose. Cheshunt Hybrid, 

 cherry-carmine, large and full ; a good pillar Rose. Countess of 

 Pembroke, satin -rose, highly perfumed; tine form. Hon. 

 George Bancroft, bright rosy-crimson, shaded purple, very 

 large. Lady Mary Fitzwilliam, delicate flesh-colour, very 

 large, globular ; a grand variety. Nancy Lee, soft rose, sweetly 

 scented, buds long; very free flowering. Pearl, flesh- white, 

 flowers small, but of perfect form. Viscountess Falmouth. 

 delicate pinkish-rose ; back of petals bright pink ; highly scented. 

 Viscountess Folkestone (Bennett), creamy-pink, centre deep 

 salmon-pink; large and very fragi\int ; new. W. F. Bennett, 

 bright crimson, describetl as being like a crimson Niphetos ; a 

 valuable new variety. Ve Primrose Dame (Bennett), prim- 

 rose-yellow, centre apricot ; full, and of good form ; new. 



Noisette Roses. 



Aimee Vibert, pure white; small, full, in large clusters. Caro- 

 line Kuster, pale yellow; large and globular form. Celine 

 Forestier, yellow, with a deep yelluw centre, of medium 

 size ; free-flowering ; opens well out-of-doors. Cloth of Gold, 

 deep yellow, sulphur edges, large and fine ; a shy blossomer, 

 requiring a warm south wall. Jaune Desprf-Z, buff yellow ; of 

 robust habit. Lamau^jie, white, lemon centre ; a flrst-clas.s Rose 

 for any purpose. Marechal Niel. beautiful deep yellow; very 

 large, full and globular form, very sweet-scented ; undoubtedly 

 one of the flnest yellow Roses ever introduced. UPHIKIE, 

 coppery-yellow, medium size, full ; a fine climlting Rose. Reve 

 d'Or, deep yellow, medium size ; makes a good pillar or climl>ing 

 Rose. Solfaterre, bright sulphur, large and full. Triomphe 

 de Rennes, canary -colour ; large, double, fine form. William 

 Allen Richardson, deep orange-yellow, small, showy, and 

 tlistinct; a good climbing Rose. 



Provence Roses (A', ccntifniia). 

 Cabbage or Common, rosy-pink, huge and fragrant. Crested or 

 Cristata, rose, pale edges; large and beautiful. White or 

 I'NUH F, jiaper-white ; large and tine. 



Miniature Provence or Pompon Roses {R. centi/oUa 



pompuiiia). 



Burgundy, pale purplish-pink ; very dwarf and small. De Meaux 



or Pompon, rosy-lilac, very small. Spong, r.'sy-Iilac, dwarf ; a 



somewhat larger flower than De Meaux. White Burgundy, 



white, slightly tinted ; dwarf. 



Moss Roses {R. ceuti/olia muscosa). 



Baron de Wassenaer, light crimson ; vigorous, flowers in clusters. 

 Common or Old, pale rose, moderate, fragrant. Comtesse de 

 MuRiNAis. white, large and double; very free. G LOIRE des 

 MoussEUSES, rosy-ldush ; one of the largest. Laneii, rosy-crimson, 

 large and double. Little Ge:m, crimson ; a miniature variety, 

 very small and double, beautifully mossed. Madajie Edward 

 ORY, rosy-carmine, vigorous. White Bath, white, beautiful in 

 bud. 



French Roses (R. fjalUca). 



BouLA de Nanteuil, criuison-purple, very large. D'Aguesseau, 

 bright crimson, large. Gloike de Colmar, rich velvety-crimson, 

 tine. Kean, rich purple, crimson centre ; vigorous. Napoleon, 

 deep rose, shaded purple; vigorous. (.Fillet Parfait, blush- 

 white, striped crimson ; very tluuble. 



Damask Roses {R. damascena). 

 La Ville de Bruxelles, rose, large and flue. Madame Hardy, 

 pure white ; vigorous. Madame Zoctman, creamy-white, shaded 

 pink, large. VouK and Lancaster, white and red, striped ; a 

 beautiful, old-fashioned, vigorous I.)urder Rose. 



Hybrid Bourbon, Hybrid China, and Hybrid Noisette 

 Roses (R. indica injbrida). 



Blairii, No. 2, blush, with rose centre, large. Charles Lawson, 

 vivid rose, very large and double ; fine. CHtiNiiDOLii, bright red ; 

 good for pillars. Coupe d'Hebe, rich deep pink, large and 

 double : vigorous. Fulgens, tine crimson ; vigorous. Mada:me 

 Plantier, pure white ; very vigorous and free -flowering. Paul 

 RiCAUT, rosy-crimson; very free. Paul Verdier, carmine-red, 

 vigorous. Vivid, rich crimson ; fine. 



Bourbon Rose. 



Souvenir de la Malmaison, blush-white, shaded flesh-colour, 

 large and full ; flowers best in autumn. 



Austrian Briar Roses {R. lutca). 

 Austrian Copper, coppery-red, single. Austrian Yellow, 

 yellow, single. Harrisonii, golden-yellow ; very free and good. 

 Persian Yellow, deep golden-yellow, vigorous. 



Ayrshire Roses {R. repens hybrida). 

 Bennett's Seedling or Thoresbyana, pure white; vigorous; 

 flowers in clusters. Dundee Rambler, white, tinged with pink. 

 Ruga, pale flesh, semi-double, very fragraut. Splendens or 



MVRRH-SCENTED, flesh-ColoUV. 



Rosa — continued. 



Boursault Roses (R. alpina.) 

 Amadis or Crimson, purplisli-crimson. Gracilis, bright pink. 

 Splendens, rosy-lilush. Vigorous-growing climbing Roses. 



Evergreen Roses {R. sempervirens). 



Felicite Perpetuelle, creamy-white ; flowers borne in clusters in 

 the greatest profusion. Flora, bright rose ; fidl and exceed- 

 ingly fine. Princess Marie, deep reddish-pink, (iood pillar 

 Roses that retain their foliage through a great part of the 

 winter. 



Banksian Roses (R. Danhnia-). 



Alba or White, pure white, small, and very double, Violet-scented. 

 LuTEA or Yellow, yellow, very double. These are half-hardy, 

 sub-evergreen Roses, that require a warm wall, and need but 

 little pruning. 



ROSACBJE, A large natural order of erect or 

 prostrate, very rarely climbing', sometimes sarmentoae 

 herbs, skrubs. or trees, widely distributed. Flowers 

 usually regular and hermaphrodite ; calyx free or adnata 

 to the ovary ; tube short or elongated, narrowed or 

 widened ; limb equal (or in Chnjsobalatiece often un- 

 equal), usually five-lobed, imbricated and persistent, rarely 

 of four lobes or none ; petals inserted below the margin 

 of the disk, as many as the calyx lobes, rarely none, equal 

 (or in ChnjsobaUnieij; unequal), obovate, oblong, rounded, 

 or spathulate, usually exunguiculate, imbricated, de- 

 ciduous ; stamens usually indefinite, two to many-seriate, 

 in a few species definite or reduced to one or two ; 

 filaments subulate or filiform, incurved in ajstivation ; 

 anthers small, very rarely elongated ; gyni\icious carpels 

 one or many, one or many-seriate. Fruit variable, supe- 

 rior or more or less inferior, naked or included within 

 the persistent calyx tube ; inflorescence variable. Leaves 

 variable, simple or compound, alternate or rarely oppo- 

 site, sometimes glandularly serrate ; stipules two, free or 

 adnate to the petiole, rarely absent ; petioles often dilated 

 at base, and biglandular at the apex. Rosacece is one 

 of the most important orders from a garden standpoint. 

 It is split up, by the authors of the " Genera Plan- 

 tarum," into ten tribes— Chrysobalanecey Nenradea^, PomecBj 

 Poteutilleic, Poteriece, Pranew, Quillaje<je, Rosece, RubecBj 

 and Spir(Bece — several of which are regarded, by some other 

 writers, as distinct orders. The principal fruits yielded 

 by members of this order are : Almond, Apple, Apricot, 

 Blackberry, Cherry, Medlar, Nectarine, Peach, Pear, Plum, 

 Quince, Raspberry, Service Berry, and Strawberry. In 

 addition to these, many beautiful flowering plants are 

 included in Kosacece, the Rose, of course, taking front 

 rank. Rose-water is obtained, by distillation, from the 

 petals of Rosa centifolia^ R. damascena, Et. jiioschata, &q., 

 as is also the Attar of Roses used in perfumery, by 

 maceration in oil of sesamum. Chrysobalanus Icaco fur- 

 nishes the Cocoa Plum of the West Indies, Parinanum 

 ex'celsmn the Grey or Rough-skin Plum, and P, macro- 

 pliyllnm the Gingerbread Plum. The bark of Moquilia 

 utilis, the Pottery-tree of the Amazons, contains such a 

 large amount of silica, that, when powdered and mixed 

 with clay, it is employed in making pottery by the 

 natives of Para. The order comprises, according to 

 Beutham and Hooker, about seventy-one genera and 

 1000 species ; but some authors place the number of 

 the latter as high as 1500. Characteristic genera : 

 Chrysobalanus, Cratceyus, Potentilla, Pyras, Rosa, RubaSf 

 Spiraea. 



ROSACEOUS. Arranged like the five petals of a 

 single rose. The term is sometimes used for rose-colour. 



ROSANOVIA. Included under Sinningla (which 

 see). 



BiOSCHERIA (no doubt commemorative, but name 

 not explained by its author). Ord. Palmce. A mono- 

 typic genus. The species is a slender, erect, stove palm, 

 with many aerial roots. It requires cultivation similar 

 to that recommended for Phoenix (which see). 



R. melanoohsstes (black-spiued). jl. in two-flowered clusters, 

 spirally arranged on very slender branches of a compoundly 



