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five inches in diameter, and their color delicate blusli, with 

 a ricli tint of cream. Its large and very luxuriant foliage, 

 compact habit, and flowers of exceeding beauty, render 

 this one of the very finest roses known. 



CHINA ROSES. 



A^rippina. — Though an old rose, this is still one of the 

 best and most popular of its class. As a forcing rose, 

 and for an abundance of bloom, it is largely cultivated by 

 bouquet venders. It is cupped, beautifully formed, and 

 of a rich, brilliant crimson, with a delicate white stripe 

 in the centre of each petal. It is one of the most hardy 

 and desirable of the old China Roses. 



Archduke Charles. — A fine cupped and hardy rose (in 

 this class we always use hardy comparatively). Its color 

 is rose, changmg to crimson during expansion, and having 

 frequently a beautiful carnation-like appearance. 



CelS multiflora. — An abundant bloomer; its color 

 is white, shaded with pink. 



Daily Blush. — One of the oldest China Roses, but one 

 of the very best. There can be nothing more perfect 

 than its half-expanded bud, of a light crimson, inclining 

 to blush. It commences blooming among the earliest, 

 and, if the old seed-vessels are picked ofl*, will continue to 

 bloom abundantly through the summer and autumn, even 

 after severe frosts. It is one of the hardiest of the class, 

 and if left in this latitude unprotected during the winter, 

 will lose no more wood than it will be necessary to cut 

 out in the spring. It grows freely, and making a stiff, 

 upright bush, would be well adapted for a hedge — the 

 winter performing the office of the shears. We recollect 

 seeing at Genoa, in Italy, a beautiful hedge of this rose, 

 which, even at that time, in midwinter, had not lost all 

 its foliage. We can imagine few things more beautiful 

 than a well-cultivated hedge of this rose, with its smooth, 



