124 DESCRIPTION OP THE ROSE. 



are undeserving of the name. Some, even with tolerably 

 good treatment, rarely show a flower after the June 

 blooming; and none will put forth freely and abundantly 

 in autumn, without more pains in the management than 

 most persons are willing to bestow. 



The French Rose has been known in England since the 

 close of the sixteenth century. It is very prolific, and 

 innumerable seedlings have been raised from it. Some of 

 these produce flowers exceedingly double, of the most 

 vivid color, and remarkable even now for the symmetry 

 of their forms. Among the rest is a great variety of mar- 

 bled, striped, and spotted roses, which, though curious and 

 interesting, are certainly less beautiful than the "self- 

 colored" sorts. 



The varieties of this rose formerly catalogued and culti- 

 vated might be numbered by hundreds. Of these, it is 

 needless to mention any but a few of the best and most 

 distinct. 



BOULA DE NANTEUIL is a rose of the richest crimson- 

 purple, with a centre, at times, of a vivid red. It varies, 

 however, very much in different seasons, and, while some- 

 times splendid in coloring, is occasionally dull and cloudy. 

 GRANDISSIMA is of a deep purplish-rose, very large and 

 double. KEAN closely resembles it. ADELE PREVOST is 



