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foliage and habit. Then there is the Perpetual White 

 Moss, which is vigorous and very mossy, and blooms in 

 Autumn as well as summer. The old Black Moss and 

 Nuits d'Young are two dark-crimson flowered species, 

 both Summer bloomers. Moussue presque partout bears 

 bright pink Roses, and very mossy leaves and branches. 

 Angelique Quetier is also a very mossy kind, bearing 

 pale lilac-rose flowers, and QEillet Panache is a vigorous 

 kind, bearing Roses striped white and red. These last 

 named are all Summer bloomers. Of the Autumn flower- 

 ing or Perpetual Moss Roses may be named, in addition to 

 the Perpetual White Moss, Salet, which has bright pink 

 flowers, very full and well shaped, shaded to fainter 

 blush at the edges ; Deuil de Paul Fontaine, of a deep 

 red, inclining to purple, shaded with lighter red ; 

 Madame Edouard Ory, with large flowers of a bright 

 pink carmine, and James Veitch, which is perhaps the 

 best dark Moss Rose, of a deep violet crimson. 



The Moss Rose is best grown on its own roots, and 

 needs a rich light soil, well cultivated. To form fine 

 masses of flowers and foliage pegging down should be 

 practised, the shoots being secured with hooked sticks 

 as Carnations are layered, when they will shoot 

 luxuriantly from the pegged-out branch. They, like 

 the Provence Roses, require severe pruning, and to 

 secure a succession of flowers it is a good plan to prune 

 half the shoots in about October, leaving the remainder 

 to be shortened the following May, pruning closely in 

 each case. In this way the season of flowering may be 

 prolonged by as much as three weeks. In late Autumn 

 the beds should have a good dressing of manure and in 

 the Spring the surface of the soil should be lightly 

 stirred with a fork. The Moss Rose is more successful 

 when grown as a low bush, from 2 to 3 feet in the 

 stem, as the stem thus increases in strength and thick- 

 ness as the head becomes heavier, and better bears the 



