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plant, the Rosa simplicifolia, or R. monophylla [Lowea berberifolia Li ml I.] 

 R. microphylla growing near it, has fallen into the hands of Cels, by whom 

 it will be shortly placed in circulation. 



'• This especial dedication of the Luxembourg gardens to the cultivation of 

 roses has done much towards their multiplication in France; while the 

 Jardin des Plantes, under the able care ot Neumann, as well as severalpro- 

 vincial botanic gardens, have taken part in the cause. At Nantes, for 

 instance, was produced a few years ago, from the accidental impregnation of a 

 Macartney rose by a Rosa indica odorata, the beautiful R. Maria Leonida, 

 now in general favour, which Howers in great perfection till the commence- 

 ment of winter ; while among the Paris nurserymen remarkable as rose- 

 growers, Noisette has given his name to a most beautiful and proline variety, 

 obtained in the first instance from Charleston, in the United States, by his 

 brother, Philip Noisette. Having amassed a considerable fortune, the Noi- 

 settes no longer continue to raise roses from seed; and this branch of culti- 

 vation is engrossed at Paris by Laffay, a most enthusiastic and intelligent 

 gardener, and Vibert, who has written some valuable treatises on the culture 

 of roses. Cels and Sisley-Vandael export largely to England; the latter 

 excelling in the preduction of the Rose The, or scented China rose. Calvert 

 and Prevost of Rouen also dispatched large collections to England ; and Sedy 

 and Plenty, at Lyons, have obtained many curious varieties. Boursault's 

 celebrated collection has fallen to decay; while that of one of the first growers 

 who attained much distinction, Descemet of St. Denis, was cut up by the 

 English troops in 1814; when the horticulturist, unable to obtain indemnifi- 

 cation from government, proceeded to Russia, and re-established himself with 

 honour and success. [He has the management of the government garden at 

 Nikitka in the Crimea.] 



" In the royal rosary at Versailles, standards may be seen which have at- 

 tained 18ft. in height, grafted with twenty different varieties of rose. The 

 same branch of rose culture is practised with great success at Brussels and 

 Diisseldorf. In the imperial gardens at Monza, near Milan, thirty-nine va- 

 rieties of China roses have been obtained by the late celebrated Villaresi ; and 

 Genoa, Marseilles, and Avignon have added to the number. At Lyons, much 

 attention has been devoted to the culture of roses; and among other rarities 

 now flourishing in their gardens, they have that beautiful miniature, the 

 Lawrencean rose (which in England attains a height of between 2 and 6 

 inches). 



"The numerous varieties of our native Scotch rose are in high estimation 

 on the Continet, as well as many others obtained in England; such as the 

 R. Sraithii, a double yellow rose, obtained by the gardener of Lady Liverpool; 

 the George IV., obtained by Rivers, jun. ; the Stanwell perpetual, an acci- 

 dental hybrid, found in Mr. Lee's garden, at Stanwell ; and many varieties of 

 moss roses, the greater number of which beautiful family were obtained in 

 England. The China or Bengal rose, sent to the Botanic garden at Kew 

 about the year 1800. The Rosa Banksiae, and that singular rose, R, micro- 

 pliylla, both natives of China, also reached the Continent by means of the 

 botanists of England. 



" There is not a more perplexing or more amusing branch of horlicul- 

 ture, than that of sowing with a view to the production of new varieties. 

 Every season alFords valuable accpuisitions ; and at the annual epoch of 

 flowering, the excitement of the enthusiastic rose -grower is at its height. 

 Laffay, for instance, has this season obtained a vigorous and very thorny 

 variety of Rosa Banksiae ; which, should it fulfil his expectations, by pro- 

 ducing, next summer, flowers of a vived pink, will alrord a highly valuable 

 addition to the Banksian tribe. 



" In addition to the interest excited by his seedlings, the attention of the 

 rose-grower is eagerly directed to the accidental varieties produced by what is 

 called ' a sport,' or branch losing the habit of the plant on which it grows, 

 and assuming new specific characters. In this way the Bath moss rose, or 



