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Descemet, who resided at St. Denis. Vibert 

 bought his stock, and continued the raising of 

 seedhng Rose-trees.* 



But I have asked this question with an ulterior 

 view. It is time, I think, for some alterations in 

 the nomenclature and classification of the Rose. 

 When summer Roses — Roses, that is, which 

 bloom but once — were almost the only varieties 

 grown, and when hybridizers found a splendid 

 market for novelties in any quantities, new always 

 and distinct /;/ name, the subdivisions yet remain- 

 ing in some of our catalogues were interesting, no 

 doubt, to our forefathers, and more intelligible, let 

 us hope, than they are to us. Let us believe that 

 it was patent to their shrewder sense why pink 

 Ruses were called Albas, and Roses whose hues 

 were white and lemon were described as Damask. 

 Let us suppose that they could distinguish at any 

 distance the Gallica from the Provence Rose, and 

 that when they heard the words Hybrid China, 

 instead of being reminded, as I am, of a cross 

 between a Cochin and a Dorking fowl, they recog- 

 nized an infinity of distinctive attributes which es- 

 trange that variety from the Plybrid Bourbon in 



* I hnve been recently informed by Mons. Vilmorin of Paris, that 

 an indigenous semi-double Rose is found in the Forest of Orleans, 

 which looks very like the parent of Rosa Gallica, and he lias kindly 

 promised to procure me specimens. 



