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indica odorata, impregnated with some hardy summer rose. Rivera's George 

 the Fourth is also an English rose : but as this came by accident, its origin 

 is not so well ascertained. Rosa Blairii is also English, and raised from the 

 yellow China, impregnated with some variety of hardy rose. All the roses 

 have the true characters of the family ; leaves smooth, glossy, and subever- 

 green; branches long, luxuriant, a»d flexible. They give a long continu- 

 ance of bloom, but they never put forth secondary or autumnal flowers. 

 This is a most peculiarly distinguishing trait, and anintcresting fact. Impreg- 

 nate a Bourbon, China, or Noisette rose, all abundant autumnal bloomers, 

 with the farina of a French or Provence rose, and you entirely take away 

 the tendency to autumnal blooming in their offspring. They will grow vig- 

 orously a!! the autumn, and give a long, but not a secondary series of flow- 

 ers. Some of these hybrid China roses, produce seed abundantly, which is 

 rather a remarkable feature, as so few hybrid plants are fertile. 



Hybrids produced from the French rose impregnated with the China rose, 

 are not of such robust and vigorous habits as when the China rose is ihe fe- 

 male parent; but perhaps this is an insertion scarcely borne out by facts, 

 for the exceptions are numerous, and, like many other variations in roses 

 and plants in general, seem to bid defiance to systematic rules. By some 

 cultivators the roses of this division have been much more divided than in my 

 , forming "Hybrid Noisettes," " Hybrid L'Isle de Bourbons," &c, 

 &c. ; but all these owe their origin to the common China rose, their offspring 

 may with justice be called hybrid China roses. 



Those who have been raised from noisette roses have a tendency to pro- 

 duce their flowers in cluste/s ; those from Bourbon roses have their leaves 

 thick, leathery, and round ; those from the tea-scented have a delicate and 

 grateful scent ; but all have those distincuishinc family trails as before given, 

 and accordingly they group beautifully. As this is the grand object of the 

 amateur cultivator, it seems far more preferable to arrange them as one fami- 

 ly, than to make several divisions with but very minute distinguishing 

 features. It is a difficult task to point out the best m this division, as they 

 are nearly all well deserving of cultivation. However, by making a few re- 

 marks, such as cannot be given in a descriptive catalogue, 1 may perhaps 

 be able, in some measure, to direct the choice of amateurs to those most 

 worthy their notice. 



Adoiphe Cachet is a rose not much known ; but a very double, well 

 shaped and distinct variety. Attelaine de Bourbon, the Athelin of some 

 French catalogues, is a hybrid Bourbon rose, scarcely double enough, but 

 exceedingly beautiful. It has finely shaped flowers, and blooms in large 

 and erect clusters ; its colour is of that vivid rose so peculiar to the Bourbon 

 roses. As this bears seed freely, it will probably be the parent of numerous 

 fine varieties. A flenrs marbre is a small, but very brilliant marbled rese, 

 one of the prettiest of this division. Adele Ancelin is a most delicate coloured 

 and beautiful rose, very perfect in its shape, and distinct in character. 



Bonne Genevieve. This rose, under the name of" Beaut6 ethereal," and 

 described as " purple margined with crimson," has been sold extensively. 

 It is a most beautiful and perfectly imbricated rose. Brennus, thelBrutus of 

 some collections : this very superb rose, will form a finer object as a pillar 

 rose or standard, than as a blush ; its luxuriant shoots must not be shortened 

 too much in winter pruning, as it "is then apt to produce an abundance of 

 wood, and but very few flowers. This ro«e. often puts forth branches in one 

 season from eight to ten feet in length : if these are from a dwarf, and are 

 fastened to a wooden or iron stake, and not shortened, the following season 

 they will form a pillar of beauty but rarely equalled. Blairii, a rcse not so 

 much known as it deserves to be, is a very distinct and unique variety, so 

 impatient of the knife, that if pruned at all severely, it will scarcely put 

 forth a flower : it is perhaps better as a pillar rose, than grown in any other 

 fliode. as it shoots ten cr twelve feet in one seafon, and its pendulous clus- 

 ters of flowers which are produced from those long shoots unshortened. have 



