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has so increased of late years that raisers of new 
Roses hesitate to label their productions anything 
else. The time is no doubt fast approaching when 
the old-fashioned lines of demarcation will have 
disappeared, and the National Rose Society will 
have to evolve a new classification. 
The Bourbon Rose was introduced from the Isle of 
Bourbon about the year 1825. This group is noted 
for its sweet scent, and also for its very good 
autumnal qualities, the true Bourbons generally giving 
better blooms in the second crop. It has been quite 
a large class. Mr. William Paul enumerates forty- 
six varieties in The Rose Garden, but few of them 
remain except the one celebrated sort Souvenir de la 
Malmaison. It seems to me highly probable that a 
much larger proportion of our H.P.s have some of 
the influence of this grand autumnal strain in their 
constitutions than is generally imagined; and as the 
modern Bourbons, Madame Isaac Pereire, Mrs. Paul, 
J.B. M. Camm, and Purity are evidently hybrids, 
it was advisable that all perpetual forms of this 
group also, should be merged in the large class of 
EP. s. 
The China Rose (R. indica).—This group, truest of 
Perpetuals, was introduced into this country from 
China about the year 1789. The Common Pink, 
otherwise known as the Monthly Rose because it is 
always in flower, and the Crimson were imported 
separately about the same time; and all other 
varieties have resulted from these types. They are 
not very strong growers, do best on their own roots 
in a warm soil, and the flowers, with little or no 
scent, have little to recommend them beyond the 
one good quality in which they are unsurpassed— 
