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Gallica, the Damask, Sulphurea, Scotch, Austrian, Moss, Semper- 

 virens and Musk, there are now many more species, besides 

 endless hybrids. Most of the new species have come to us from 

 Eastern x\sia. The httle Banksian Rose came from China in 

 1807, and smaller Fairy Rose in 1810 ; the Tea-scented Rose 

 about the same time. Monthly Roses in 1789, and multiflora 

 in 1822. Since then numerous varieties have been added, 

 Boursault's, Noisette, Polyantha, Bourbon, and so on. In the 

 Catalogue of the great nurseryman, Loddiges, in Hackney, in 

 1826, there are " no less than 1393 species and varieties of 

 Roses," numbered as existing in their nurseries, and Lee, of 

 Hammersmith, also had great quantities. Ever since then roses 

 have been multiplying yearly. In 1861-2 Paul^ brought out as 

 many as sixty-two new varieties, and during the next ten years 

 he added many more, including such favourites as Marechal 

 Niel, Louis Van Houtte, and Paul Neyron. This profusion of 

 new roses which is still being added to year by year, has 

 banished many of the old ones, such as the sweet Moss Rose and 

 Damask, which deserve a place, as well as the hybrid perpetuals 

 and teas. 



The Dahlia, t a native of Mexico, was first introduced in 1789 

 from Spain by Lady Bute, but was lost and re-introduced in 1804 

 by Lady Holland, and twenty years later the craze for these 

 tiowers reached its height. The Fuchsia appeared in this country 

 within the first five-and-twenty years of this century, although 

 named by Plumier after Fuclis about a hundred years earlier. The 

 story is told of how Lee saw a Fuchsia plant in a window of a 

 small house in Wapping. He was so struck with the flower that 

 he went in and asked the old woman to whom it belonged whether 

 she would sell it to him. She, however, at first refused to part 

 with it, as it had been sent to her by her husband who was 

 a sailor, but was persuaded to let him. have it when he offered 

 her eight guineas and promised to give her two of the 

 first plants he reared. He succeeded in getting some three 



* The Rose Garde)!. By Win. Paul. 9th Ed., 1S8S. 



t Named after Dahl the Swedish botanist, and quite distinct from the 

 Dalea called after Dr. Samuel Dale (1659-1739). 



