GARDEN ROSES. 1 85 



These white Roses are no candidates (though candidatce) 

 at our severe competitive examinations ; but they are 

 dehghtful members of our Rose community, beautiful in 

 themselves, and enhancing greatly the beauty of others. 

 We must not be fastidious because they are of medium 

 size in some cases and not purely white in others, re- 

 membering that their colours are still the most rare of all, 

 and that their flowers are plenteous always. They are 

 easily cultivated on the Brier, the Manetti, or their own 

 roots. 



In place of the dark crimson, which we called the Dam- 

 ask, Rose, the amateur is advised to substitute Boule de 

 Nanteuil, D'Aguesseau, Frederic 11. , General Jacqueminot 

 (Hybrid China), Grandissima, Ohl, Paul Ricaut, Shake- 

 speare, and Triomphe de Jaussens. These are noble Roses, 

 of healthful growth, fine foliage, and ample bloom. They 

 make grand heads on standards of medium height, moder- 

 ately pruned, and immoderately manured. It seems to 

 me but a few summers since these were our finest show 

 varieties, the belles of our Court balls : and now, seen in 

 the zenith of their glory upon the trees, they are not to be 

 surpassed in size or richness of colour, but they have not 

 the perfect symmetry of our more recent Roses, and they 



