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to tell where to place many of its varieties ; a true type 

 of this class is the well-known Agrippina, (crimson). The 

 Bourbon class is an extensive one, coming nearer to the 

 Hybrid Perpetual in its large and double flowers and 

 more rugged growth, and to the Bengal in the absence 

 of all yellow or orange shade of color in its flowers. An 

 old and unsurpassed type of this class is the well-known 

 Souvenir de la Malmaison, (blush). 



All of this class are tender, and unless in situations partic- 

 ularly favored by a dry soil, and well sheltered, are either 

 killed outright, or cut down to the roots by the frosts 

 in winter almost everywhere in the Northern States. 

 Every now and then we hear of new varieties of this class, 

 which are represented to be hardy, but I would say to 

 amateur readers, and to gardeners whose experience in 

 such things has not been sufficient to guide them, that in 

 all such cases the vender either is ignorant of what he 

 says, or knows that his representations are false. There 

 is no more likelihood of our getting a Noisette, Tea, Ben- 

 gal, or Bourbon Rose to prove generally hardy in lati- 

 tudes where the thermometer runs down below zero, than 

 there is to have hardy Camellias or Chinese Azaleas. A 

 few years ago, a Western firm had the impudence to 

 get up a stock of the old Noisette Rose, Solfaterre, named 

 it " Augusta," and representing it as a " Yellow Ever- 

 blooming, hardy " variety, sold some thousands of it at 65 

 each. They seem to have sold their reputation at the 

 eame time, however, for after perpetrating the swindle, 

 they were not afterwards heard of. 



It is with hesitation that we give a list of a few varieties 

 of each class, as to name only one out of every score of 

 varieties seems to be unfair and invidious towards those 

 not given, which, perhaps, have claims surpassing those 

 we thus distinguish. But to describe the different colors 

 and characteristics of each class it becomes necessary. 



