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— regular nosegays, elevated to a convenient 

 distance to enjoy all their beauty and fragrance. 

 Wlien there are mossy, yellow, and striped roses 

 in this family, rose culture will have approached 

 its climax. 



PEEPETUAL DAMASK EOSES. 



TwEXTY-FiYE years ago, this division of the 

 Eose was known only to a very limited extent, 

 not going beyond the old Monthly Damask and 

 the Portland — the types of the group, which in 

 that short period have become so extensive, and 

 varied in color and character, that the parentage 

 of many is difficult to point out. But, unfortu- 

 nately, there are those that pass for perpetual^ 

 which, with all. our art, we cannot cause to pro- 

 duce even a second blooming in the season, except 

 by demolishing all the buds they form in June to 

 make them flower in September. Many of them 

 have another feature of obstinacy; and this is, that, 

 in rooting by layers, they nearly all take two years 

 to form rootlets ; we have, in consequence, either 

 to graft or bud them on other roses at any desired 

 height. Several of them were brought into notice 

 before the famous Bourbon Eoses, and were looked 



