96 THE PERPETUAL DAMASK EOSE. 



finely shaped, of a delicate pink tinted with 

 salmon, and very fragrant. This rose will flourish 

 better on the Manetti stock than on the Dog 

 Rose : it is a most desirable rose. 



The Crimson Perpetual, Rose du Roi, or Lee's 

 Crimson Perpetual, deserves a few extra words of 

 comment. This fine rose was raised from seed, 

 in 1812, in the gardens of the palace of Saint 

 Cloud, then under the direction of Le Comte 

 Lelieur, and named Rose du Roi ; owing, I sup- 

 pose, to Louis XVIII. soon after that time being 

 restored, and presenting an opportunity for the 

 Court gardeners to show their loyalty : it is not 

 recorded that its name was changed during the 

 hundred days to Rose de I'Empereur ! It is 

 asserted that it was raised from the Rosa Port- 

 Ian dica, a semi-double bright-coloured rose, much 

 like the rose known in this country as the Scarlet 

 Four Seasons, or Rosa Psestana ; which, Eustace 

 tells us, in his Classical Tour, grows among the 

 ruins of Psestum, enlivening them with its bril- 

 liant autumnal flowers. This proves to be a 

 traveller's tale. 



In France the Crimson Perpetual bears seed 

 abundantly, but its produce are, for the most part, 

 varieties partaking largely of Rosa gallica ; it is, 

 however, like our old and excellent Provence Rose, 

 liable to sport ; in this way it produced the Rose 

 Bernard ; and more recently a good variety has 

 been originated in the same manner ; but, like 



