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esteemed by amateiars in this country. In my 

 twenty-five years' practice as an American Xur- 

 ser3m:ian, I have not sold fifty plants of it ; but 

 recent hybrids have given some of them a tend- 

 ency to bloom three or four times during the 

 season, causing them to be more admired, which 

 vrill be noticed under the head oi Peiyetual Roses. 

 In pruning, treat it as described for the Yellow 

 Rose. 



E S A C E N T I F L I A . 



THE PKOVTNS, OR CABBAGE ROSE. 



This very celebrated and justly popular rose 

 has been an inhabitant of Enolish o-ardens for 

 nearly 'three hundred years ; its native country is 

 rather obscure, though vague tradition says it 

 comes from the East, a term of great breadth and 

 length ; however, Bieberstein asserts having seen 

 it growing on the Caucasus. Some suppose that 

 this is the rose mentioned by Pliny as being a 

 great favorite among the Romans. In this taste 

 the modern vrorld still agree, for it disjDutes the 

 palm of beauty with its sisters of the present day 

 although it has been crossed and amalgamated 

 with many others, few of the progeny outvie the 



