454 breck's new book of flowers. 



is resorted to for extensive propagation with tliis class. 

 Some of the varieties, when grown upon their own roots, 

 do not do justice to themselves ; but when worked on 

 strong-growing stocks, grow much more luxuriantly, and 

 give more perfect flowers. Mr. Parsons has described 

 two hundred varieties of Roses from the various classes 

 of those sorts he thinks most desirable for the amateur to 

 select from. There are but few persons who will be disr 

 posed to cultivate that number. His selection is a very 

 choice one^ and I should hardly know myself which to re- 

 ject. Fifty varieties, well chosen from the various classes, 

 are as many as most persons, unless they have money 

 enough and to spare, would be likely to cultivate ; and 

 the great majority would probably be happy to possess 

 half that number. 



Everhloommg Roses. — These Roses are distinguished 

 from the Remontant, by blooming continually through the 

 season, without any temporary cessation. They include 

 the Bourbon, the Bengal and its sub-varieties, the Tea 

 and Noisette, the Musk, the Macartney, and the Micro- 

 phylla Roses." 



The Everblooming Roses are very desirable, wherever 

 the climate renders it possible to preserve them through 

 the Avinter. As fir north as Boston, the greater part of 

 them can only be cultivated to perfection in the green- 

 house, but further south, they endure the winter, even, 

 without protection. 



Bourbon Roses. — This section of the Everblooming 

 Roses has not succeeded in my own grounds. Mr. Par- 

 sons says they are perfectly hardy with him, (Long 

 Island,) which is much warmer than in this State. Pie 

 says, in speaking of it as having superior qualities to tlie 

 Tea-scented Rose, " These qualities are, its perfect hard- 

 iness, its very tliick, leathery foliage, its luxuriant growth, 

 its constant bloora, and its thick, velvety petals of a con- 



