218 THE ROSE. 
named are of such delicate habit that they 
will never be useful for general culture. 
The Polyantha Rose is of recent introduc- 
tion. The original, which is a native of 
Japan, has very small, single white flowers, 
about the size of a silver twenty-five-cent 
piece; itis of sarmentous growth, quite hardy, 
and blooms in panicles, in the spring. Some 
of the French growers have raised seedlings, 
crosses (natural or artificial) with Teas or 
other classes, which are true ever-blooming 
roses and of great merit. The varieties best 
known are Paquerette, Anne Marie de Mon- 
travel, Mignonette, and Cécile Briinner. 
They are more tender than the parent, but 
are quite as hardy as the Hybrid Noisettes 
and the Hybrid Teas. As an edging for a 
bed of monthly roses, nothing can be more 
effective than a row or two of Paquerette or 
one of the other Polyanthas. They are ex- 
tremely beautiful little flowers, which will 
survive all the sneers of the horticultural 
snobs who see no beauty in a rose much 
smaller in size than a peony. 
The attention of hybridizers is now di- 
rected toward crossing varieties of Tea with 
Hybrid Remontant roses, and new sorts of 
great value may confidently be expected from 
