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this is doubtless correct. Although several hundred 
varieties of the Moss Rose have been raised since the 
introduction of the original, none are superior, if 
equal to it, in point of beauty or fragrance ; its long 
handsome buds covered with tufts of the most 
beautiful mossy excrescence make it interesting and 
beautiful in all stages. The Crested Moss Rose, or, 
as it is sometimes called, Crested Provence, is most 
peculiar and beautiful; the beauty of its bud alone 
should claim a place for it in every garden. The 
Moss Roses are mostly of delicate growth, though 
some are vigorous and robust in habit, and form 
good standards, but as a rule they all succeed best 
when grown upon low stocks, or otherwise upon 
their own roots; the latter mode is best suited to the 
Old Moss, and no garden wherever Roses are grown 
should be without a bed or two of this old favourite. 
They require rather high cultivation and close 
pruning, and generally speaking rather better treat- 
ment than ordmary kinds. In wet or cold damp 
soils they do not thrive, a warm dry soil being 
required, and this well supplied annually with 
manure. If at any time they appear to decline in 
health, they should be taken up and replanted into 
fresh loamy soil, and cut hard back. 
Alice Leroy (Trouillard, 1842): rosy pink, good mossy buds, free 
blooming, good habit ; mod. 
Baronne de Wassenaer (Verdier, 1854): deep rose, very large, 
double and showy 3; vig. 
Celina (Robert, 1855): velvety purple and crimson, very beau- 
tiful in bud, but delicate and weak-growing ; mod. 
Colonel Robert le Fort (EK. Verdier, 1884): reddish purple, flower 
large, very double and very fragrant ; mod. 
