14 THE MOSS ROSE. 



Celina is one of the very best dark crimson 

 Moss Koses we yet possess ; its foliage has a pecu- 

 liarly dark glossy-green tint, quite distinct ; its 

 iiowers are large and double, but not quite full to 

 the centre ; colour very brilliant, but deep crimson, 

 in some seasons slightly tinged with purple ; this 

 has to a certain extent superseded the Luxembourg 

 Moss, which only a few years since was our only 

 deep-coloured Moss Eose. Its habit is not quite 

 so robust as that of the latter, which in some soils 

 is almost too much so, making shoots six feet in 

 lenoth in moist seasons. We have now also what 

 was at one time thought to be impossible, viz. the 

 Old Rose Unique mossed ; this is called Moss 

 Unique de Provence. I cannot learn its origin ; 

 if from seed or otherwise; but am inclined to 

 think it is a sport from our old favourite the 

 Unique Rose ; its habit is similar and equally 

 robust ; its flowers of the same pure white, and 

 blooming in the same large clusters ; its flowers 

 are however often imperfect. 



In Comtesse de Murinais we have a vigorous 

 white Moss Rose, a most remarkable variety, evi- 

 dently resulting from a cross with the Damask 

 Rose, of which it largely partakes in its foliage 

 and general habit ; this is so robust that young 

 plants often make shoots more than six feet in 

 length, of the thickness of a stout riding-cane. 

 Its flower buds are well mossed, but its flowers 

 are not very double ; they are large, very slightly 



