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Rosa Danuiscena. This is a race of Damask roses 

 endowed with the faculty of blooming in the autumn. 

 The old roses known as the Monthly (not the China roses 

 so called) and the Four Seasons are the parents of the 

 group, though not without some infusion of foreign blood. 

 The Damask Perpetuals are hardy, and remarkable for 

 fragrance. They demand rich culture, even more than 

 most other roses ; and the best of them with neglect and 

 low diet will bloom but once in the year, and that indif- 

 ferently. On the other hand, they repay generous treat- 

 ment liberalry, as some of them are as beautiful as they 

 are fragrant. American nursery-men usually catalogue 

 them among the Hybrid Perpetuals, where they are out of 

 place; since the true Damask Perpetual is not, in any 

 sense, a hybrid, though, as before mentioned, some foreign 

 blood has found its way into the family. 



The French rose -grower Vibert has formed a 'hew 

 group, which he calls the Rose de Trianon, out of the 

 Damask Perpetuals ; but, as the subdivision seems unne- 

 cessary and perplexing, we shall re-annex it to the parent 

 group. 



