ROSES THAT BLOOM THE WHOLE SEASON. 139 



common lieu's egg-sliell avouIcI liave covered the 

 whole bush without touching it. This I saw, and 

 assert to be a fact. It is now seven or eight years 

 old, flowers regularly every year, affording wood 

 for propagation, and has never yet attained two 

 inches in height, nor its whole top exceeding one, 

 or one and a half inch in diameter; the rose is 

 about the size of a buck-shot." The article was 

 written by a gentleman of high standing, with 

 whom I am personally acquainted ; and I do sup- 

 pose, as he says, it is " a fact," although I have not 

 been able to get possession of the plant. 



ROSA BOUKBONIAXA. 



THE BOURBON ROSE. 



It is about fifteen years since we predicted that 

 this group of roses, in a few years, would be the 

 most popular of the whole family of the "Queen 

 of Flowers ;" that prediction is now literally ful- 

 filled, in the great demand by all the admirers and 

 cultivators of the rose, for the varieties of this 

 family. Our readers will allow that the taste thus 

 created within a few years is not to be wondered 

 at, when we have held up to their admiration the 



