VARIETIES DESCRIBED. O 



sepals, that they present a most unicjiie and ele- 

 gant appearance, totally unlike any other ro.se. 



When the flower is fully expanded this peculiar 

 beauty vanishes, and it has merely the appearance 

 of a superior variety of the Provence Rose. It 

 should here be mentioned that, if grown in a poor 

 soil, its buds often lose their crest, and become 

 plain like those of the latter. As a standard, this 

 rose is very graceful, its large flowers and buds 

 drooping from their weight. 



The Dutch, or large Provence, is exactly like 

 the Common, or Cabbage, Provence, and equally 

 fragrant, but very much larger ; tliis is a fine 

 rose for forcing. 



The pictures of Van Huysum contain beautiful 

 specimens of flowers of this variety, and as an 

 artist's rose it is excelled by few modern sorts. 

 Van Huysum's Cabbage Roses would tempt a 

 butterfly to settle on them. It is strange that 

 the Dutch — prosaic to a proverb — should have 

 taken the lead, not only in tulips, but in roses, 

 since almost exclusively the property of the Per- 

 sians of Europe — the French. 



La Reine de Provence really deserves to be 

 the queen of this division. Its large and finely- 

 shaped globular flowers have a good effect when 

 suspended from a standard ; these are of a pale 

 lilac rose-colour, distinct and beautiful. The 

 Scarlet Provence is an old variety, one of those 

 misnomers that in flowers so often lead to dis- 



