DESCRIPTION OF ROSES. 



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PERPETUAL OR AUTUMNAL ROSES, (Continued.) 



NAME. 



2 l Louis Philippe 



1 Lodoiska 

 I Madame Feburier 

 1 Ma Delice, or Douce 

 Mellie 

 Mario Deniso 

 1 Porapone four Seasons 



1 Pulcherio 

 1. Preval 



4 Ptestana or Scarlet four 

 Seasons 



2 Perpetuelle d' Angers 



3 s Palmire, or blush per- 



petual 

 Perpetua nova 

 Panache de Girardon, or 



striped perpetual 



1 Palotte Picote 



2 Portlandica carnea 



3 Portlandica grandi flora 

 £J > Queen of Perpetuals 



Royal Perpetual 

 1 Saint Barthdemy 



4 s Scotch Perpetual 



3 s Stanwell Perpetual 



Sixth of June 

 \ Triomphc de Vitrv 

 1 Volumineuso 



COLOUR. 



d a rk p u rpli sh c ri m 



son 

 pale blush 

 rose 



pale roso 

 pale, rosy centre 

 palo flesh 

 purplish red 

 pale rose 



blight crimson 

 very pale flesh 



pale roso 



FORM AND CHARACTER. 



expanded and very large 

 globular, large and double 

 cupped, large, and very dblu 



supped and very double 

 globular and large 

 compact, very small, & dbls 

 globular and double 

 expanded and double 



cupped semi-double 

 expanded and very large 



compact and very double 



pale flesh, striped 



with red 

 pale flesh 

 pale rose 

 deep rose 

 pale flesh 

 bright rose 

 purplish rose 

 blush 

 pale flesh 

 deep rose 

 bright rose 

 blush 



cupped and double 

 compact and double 

 cupped semi double 

 globular, very large, & dbl« 

 cupped and very double 

 compact, very large, & dble 

 cupped and semi-double 

 cupped and double 

 expanded and double 

 compact and very double 

 expanded and double 

 globular, very large, & dble 



This division rapidly increases in interest. I have not attempted to ar- 

 rango them according to their botanical affinities, but merely as to their 

 habit of blooming in the autumn ; most of the pale flowered varieties with 

 pubescent leaves originated from those old damask roses the red and while 

 monthly, Stanwell and Scotch Perpetual, from the Scotch rose hybridised ; 

 the crimson Perpetual, or Rose du Roi from the *Portlandica plena; this 

 superb variety was raised from seed in 1812, In the Gardens of the Palace of 

 .St. Cloud, by the flower gardener, M. Suchet, under the direction of Le 

 Compte Lelieur, the Royal Gardenor, and by him named tho " Rose du 

 Rol ;" the Rosa Pccstana, which I suspect is tho parent of some of our fine 

 varieties, Is mentioned by Eustace in his " Classical Tour," as growiug 

 among the Ruins of tho Templo of Pcestum, and enlivening them with its 

 brilliant autumnal flowers. A clump or border of Perpetual Roses will soon 

 be indispensible in every well furnished flower-garden. They aro perhaps 

 the most deslrablo of all the ploasing families of Rosa; liko their prototypes, 

 they are highly fragrant, and if possible, more so in September, October, and 

 November, than in June. As every shoot in most of the varieties produces 

 bloom, tho soil cannot bo too rich ; for with these, luxuriant growth will be 

 «uro to give abundance of floweis. A good practice would bo to cut otF all 

 the bloom-buds in June, and shorten tho shoots to about half their length ; 

 (hen water thorn with manured water In July and August; this will make 

 ili'.ni nhoot and bloom most luxuriantly all tho autumn. 



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