100 DESCRIPTION OP THE ROSE. 



the Tea,* the Bourbon, the Hybrid Perpetual, the Perpet- 

 ual Mbss, the Damask Perpetual,* the Noisette, the 

 Musk,* the Macartney,* the Microphylla.* 



Some of the above are marked with a star*: these are 

 roses of pure blood. The rest are roses of mixed or hybrid 

 origin. By the former are meant those which have sprung, 

 without intermixture, from the wild roses which grew 

 naturally in various parts of the world, and which are the 

 only roses of which the botanical classifier takes cogni- 

 zance. Many of them are of great beauty, and would be 

 highly prized for ornamental uses, were they not eclipsed 

 by the more splendid double varieties, which the industry 

 of the florist has developed from them. Each of these 

 groups of unmixed roses, however modified in form, size, 

 or color, retains, as already mentioned, distinctive features 

 of the native type from which it sprang. Yet it often 

 happens that the name is misapplied. Thus a rose called 

 Damask is not always a Damask, but a hybrid between 

 a Damask and some other variety. The true distinctive 

 features of the group are thus rendered, in some nominal 

 members of it, so faint, that they can scarcely be recog- 

 nized. Leaving these bastards out of view, we will con- 

 sider at present only the legitimate offspring of the various 

 families of the rose. 



