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5. Fairy ; flowers pale pink. 

 I Blush) 



6. Gloire des Lawrenceanas ; flowers dark crimson. 



7. Jenny ; flowers bright crimson. 

 Rubra) 



8. La Desiree; flowers crimson. 



9. La Laponne ; flowers pink. 



10. Multiflora ; flowers rose. 



11. Nemesis; flowers crimson, changing blackish, larger and more robust in 



habit than the others. 



12. Nigra ; flowers very dark crimson. 

 Petit Laponne; see La Laponne. 



13. Pompon Bijou ; flowers pale rose. 



14. Pourpre brun ; flowers purplish crimson. 



15. Retour du Printemps ; flowers bright rose. 

 Rubra ; see Jenny. 



ROSA. INDICA. 



Group XXXV.— THE TEA-SCENTED ROSE. 



In 1810 the Blush Tea-scented Rose was introduced from China, and fourteen 

 years later the Yellow variety was received from the same country. They have 

 given birth to a very numerous family, some remarkable for their large thick 

 petals ; others for possessing a strong tea-like scent ; and others for the delicacy 

 and bewitching tints of the flowers. It has been said, both by French and English 

 writers on this subject, that the Yellow, although a fertile seed-bearer, never 

 produces varieties worthy of notice. As if to redeem its character from this 

 aspersion, a few years ago it produced, in this country, the Devoniensis, one of 

 the handsomest of the group, raised by Mr. Foster of Plymouth, with others from 

 the same parent, one of which, a Noisette of a yellow cast, is now in the possession 

 of Messrs. Lucombe and Pince of Exeter. 



It must be admitted that this beautiful group is somewhat difficult of culture. 

 They require a rich well-drained soil, close pruning, and, if grown out of doors, a 

 dry warm border and protection from frost. The practice of removing them 

 from the ground for protection during winter, and again transferring them to 

 their places in the Rosarium in spring, cannot be too highly deprecated. To 

 remove a plant once endangers its growth and perfect flowering the first year, and 

 to remove it twice more than doubles the risk of failure. Tea-Roses may be 

 divided into two classes : " Ligneous *," represented by the Comte de Paris, 



* The words "Ligneous" and "Herbaceous" are not used here in their strict botanical sense, 

 but to distinguish the two races. 



