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growth, and rather deficient in the " mossy coat" 



so much admired in this tribe. If it had the 

 beauty, while in bud, of the old moss, it would be 

 an invaluable acquisition ; it is said to have origi- 

 nated from a sportive branch of the common Moss 

 Eose. In England, about thirty-five years ago, 

 when it first "came out," it brought in the guineas 

 at a great rate. Princess Adelaide is a hybrid 

 variety of great luxuriance — growing six to eight 

 feet in a season, producing its very perfect rosy 

 blush flowers in large clusters, and is generally 

 known as the Bourbon Moss. Laffays Perpetual 

 W?ate 2I0SS, or the Quatre Saisons Moussev.x of the 

 French, is pure white, and is very pretty when in 

 bud, which it produces in clusters. The expand- 

 ed rose has no attraction, but the profusion amply 

 makes up for this ; if grown in rich free soil it 

 produces flowers the whole season ; in such a soil 

 I have a plant now (August) entirely covered with 

 bunches of flowers. The Moss Eose in this 

 country is a plant of very difficult culture unless 

 in a rich sandy soil ; but if it is once fairly esta- 

 blished in such it vrill make shoots six feet long. 

 To encourage its growth, fresh soil, well incorpo- 

 rated with manure, should be dug in about its roots 

 every winter. The pruning must be done sparingly. 

 If the plants are kept low they never do well, 



