140 ROSES THAT BLOOM THE WHOLE SEASON. 



choice bouquet of these flowers whicli we are now 

 about to present. As this family has become so 

 very popular, its history, no doubt, will prove in- 

 teresting to many, and is, indeed, worthy of some 

 attertion. 



The first rose is said to have been imported from 

 the Isle of Bourbon to France in 1822, and is there 

 known in the catalogue of the French growers as 

 Rose de Vile de Bourhon. It attracted great atten- 

 tion by its peculiar habit and profusion of bril- 

 liant bright rose-colored flowers, blooming in June, 

 with a slight tendency to flower again in autumn ; 

 not being fully double, it produced an abundance 

 of seed, from which varieties were obtained that 

 bloomed freely the whole season. The only roses 

 known on the island, were the common China, and 

 the Eed-four-seasons, till about the year 1816, when 

 a Monsieur Perichon was planting a hedge of these. 

 Among his plants, he found one very different from 

 the others in its shoots and leaves, which induced 

 him to plant it in his garden, where it was disco- 

 vered by a French botanist, and sent home in 1822 

 to Monsieur Jacques, then gardener at the Chateau 

 de Neuilly; this accounts for the name of "Bour- 

 bon Jacques," frequently given by English growers 

 to the common Bourbon Kose. It was introduced 

 to this country, in 1828, by the late Mr. Thomas 



