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REVIEW. 



The Rose Amateur's Guide. By T. Rivers, Jun. containing 

 ample Description of all the fine leading varieties of Roses, 

 regularly classed in their descriptive Families, their history 

 and Modes of culture ; in Two Parts. Part I. The Summer 

 RosejGarden. Part II. The Autumnal Rose Garden. 



Every person who takes an interest in this beautiful tribe of 

 plants, ought to procure this very interesting book. It contains 

 a description of a number of the best Roses in each particular 

 class, with some judicious remarks on their culture. It is di- 

 vided into two parts. Part I. includes remarks upon the fol- 

 lowing classes of Roses 



The Provence Rose, The Moss Rose, The French Rose, Hy- 

 brid Provence Rose, Hybrid China Roses, Rosa Alba, The 

 Damask Rose, The Scotch Rose, The Sweet Rose, The Sweet 

 Briar, The Austrian Briar, The Double Yellow Rose. Climb- 

 ing Roses, The Ayrshire Rose, Rosa Multiflora, The Evergreen 

 Rose, The Boursault Rose, Hybrid climbing Roses. 



Part II. Perpetual Roses, The Bourbon Rose, The Chinese 

 Rose, The Tea-scented Chinese Rose, The Miniature Rose, 

 The Noisette Rose, the Musk Rose, the Macartney Rose, Rosa 

 Microphylla, an abridged list of Roses. 



We have selected the Remarks upon one class of the Summer 

 Rose Garden, and one from the Autumnal Rose Garden, that 

 our Readers may form an estimate of a Work so well worth 

 possessing. 



HYBRID CHINA ROSES. 



" The superior varieties of this fine division give a combination ot all 

 that is or can be beautiful in roses, for not only are their flowers of the most 

 elegant forms and colours, their foliage of extreme luxuriance, but their 

 branches are so vigorous and graceful, that perhaps no plant presents such 

 a masB of beauty as a finely grown hybrid China rose in full bloom. They 

 owe their origin to the China, Tea-scented' Noisette and Bourbon roses, fer- 

 tilized with the French Provence, and other summer roses, and also to the 

 latter crossed with the former; the seeds of such impegcated flowers pro- 

 ducing hybrid China roses. These have, in many cases, resulted from 

 accident, but latterly from the regular fertilizing process, as mules or hy- 

 brids have been raised from well kuown parents. 



In England, but few varieties have been originated ; as the common China 

 rose docs not in general ripen its seeds sufficiently for germination The 

 parents of Hrown's superb blush, which is an English hybrid, raised by ihe 

 late Mr. Charles Brown of Slough, one of the most scientific ami persevering 

 cultivators, cut off iu the prime of life, was the old tea-scented rose, Rosa 



