16 THE MOSS EOSE. 



a nearer approach to the Bourbon, would have 

 probably given us merely a mediocre Bourbon 

 Eose, with some very faint signs of its mossy 

 parentage. 



There are but few new summer Moss Eoses 

 worthy of attention, although, as usual, there are 

 plenty raised by the French florists ; they are, 

 however, only remarkable for their well-sounding 

 names. I have imported for several years every 

 new Moss Eose raised in France, to the amount 

 of nearly one hundred varieties, and have found 

 but few worthy of cultivation. Among these. 

 Lane's Moss, or ' Lanei,' raised from the seed by 

 INI. Laffay, is a fine globular and very double 

 rose, with flowers very fragrant and of a rich rosy 

 crimson tinted with purple ; its habit is remark- 

 ably vigorous, more so than that of any other 

 Moss Eose, and a large bed planted with it on 

 its own roots would have a fine eff'ect. Princesse 

 Eoyale, like the above, is not a very new rose, 

 but exceedingly neat and pretty, as its flowers are 

 light pink and beautifully shaped ; in habit it is 

 very vigorous. Gloire des Mousseuses and Marie 

 de Blois are two very large double roses of re- 

 markably vigorous growth; the former is the 

 largest of all Moss Eoses ; in colour they differ 

 but slightly from the Old Moss Eose. Baron de 

 Wassenaer is also a new, large, and finely-shaped 

 rose, deeper in colour than the preceding, and 

 approaching to carmine ; this variety is well 



