DESCRIPTION OP THE ROSE. 165 



grower, and should be planted in the centre of the bed. 

 For crimson, take Cramoisie Superieure, no other variety 

 approaches this in its peculiar richness of color ; for scarlet, 

 Fabvier; foe red, Prince Charles and Carmin Superbe; 

 for deep crimson, Eugene Beauharnais; for blush, Mrs. 

 Bosanquet; for a variegated group, changeable as the 

 chameleon, take Archduke Charles and Virginie ; for rose, 

 Madame Breon. I picture to myself the above on a well- 

 kept lawn, their branches pegged to the ground so as to 

 cover the entire surface; and can scarcely imagine any 

 thing more chaste and beautiful. 



a To succeed in making these roses bear and ripen their 

 seed in England, a warm, dry soil and south wall are 

 necessary ; or, if the plants can be trained to a flued wall, 

 success will be more certain. Eugene Beauharnais, fer- 

 tilized with Fabvier, would probably produce first-rate 

 brilliant-colored flowers. Archduke Charles, by removing 

 a few of the small central petals, just before their flowers 

 are expanded, and fertilizing it with pollen from Fabvier 

 or Henry the Fifth, would give seed; and as the object 

 ought to be, in this family, to have large flowers with 

 brilliant colors, and plants of hardy, robust habits, no bet- 

 ter union can be formed. China roses, if blooming in an 

 airy greenhouse, will often produce fine seed : by fertilizing 

 their flowers, it may probably be insured. In addition, 

 therefore, to those planted against a wall, some strong 

 plants of the above varieties should be planted in the 



