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delphia. There is no mistake about it — the plants are in bloom, 

 and speak, as loud as full-blown roses can speak, for themselves. 

 Besides which, the label on the plant which I received bears 

 this inscription, (in the hand-writing of the person of whom I ob- 

 tained it, and who I guess to be the author of the article above 

 alluded to in your Magazine.) The label is " Gloria de France, 

 or Monthly cabbage." Now, sir, what is the object of giv- 

 ing a new name to this rose, but to enable the person to sell them 

 to those who had them before under another name? When your 

 Magazine arrived here with the notice of the monthly cabbage, 

 all our gardeners and many amateurs were on tiptoe to get it. I 

 got the start of them in my hurry to be cheated, and saved them 

 the expense and trouble of getting what they already possessed. 

 The rose is a very fine one, and is not inappropriately called the 

 monthly cabbage; but its other and well known name should 

 have accompanied the new one, to prevent mistakes, and paying 

 dearly for duplicates. By the way, the monthly cabbage sells 

 for something more in Philadelphia than the Gloria de France, 

 which I suppose is to pay for the trouble of giving it a new 

 name. 



But to return to Mr. Feast's roses. I have just seen six 

 Ayrshire roses, four pure white and two pink, all of exquisite 

 form, and very double. The whites are pure almost as snow, 

 and the pinks exquisitely rich and bright. But the greatest ac- 

 quisitions are those called by him La belle Triumphe, the crim- 

 son Ayrshire, the perpetual Bourbon, and the double prairie 

 rose. La belle Triumphe is very dark crimson in the centre of 

 the flower, growing paler towards the circumference, till it gets 

 quite light pink, resembling somewhat the flower of the micro- 

 phylla rose. It is very double, and cabbage form. The perpetu- 

 al Bourbon is like the old Bourbon rose in form and color, but is a 

 perpetual bloomer. The double prairie rose was produced from 

 the seed of a plant raised from the seed of the wild rose of the west- 

 ern prairies. It is decidedly one of the most beautiful roses I ever 

 saw. It is of the richest possible crimson, of the cabbage form, 

 and when fully open forms a perfect goblet, the petals forming a cup 

 so close and compact that it will hold water. In the centre there are 

 a few imperfect petals, beautifully striped with white and yellow. 

 It is altogether a most valuable addition to our gardens. vSome 

 of the Ayrshire roses are the most lovely white flowers you can 

 imagine. These are only a few, a very few, of the new varie- 

 ties of Mr. Feast's roses; but they are so very striking, that I 

 thought I would attempt a description of them, as a confirmation 

 of what I have before written to you. I ought to mention, also, 

 that Mr. John Feast has a very large collection of new varieties 

 (also produced by cross impregnation,) of roses, rhododendrons, 

 pelargoniums, azaleas, &c. " Last, not least,^^ permit me to 

 mention a couple of roses in my own collection, that I think 



