March.] roses. 55 



Belgie or Dutch Provins, red, with very large flowers, cupped 



and extra double. 

 Bouquet de Lisle, spotted. 



Cabbage Provius, or f Fi f ^e, very large, globa- 



Centifolia of the French, j double 11 extremel y 



Don Solo, shaded and spotted. 



Harrisoni,* bright yellow, cupped, small and semi-double. 

 Helen, light piuk, very large, cupped and double. 

 Imperial blush, delicate blush, expanded, large and double. 

 Isabella, blush pink, very profuse, cupped and double. 

 King of Rome, deep red, very large, compact and exquisitely 



double. 

 La Ville de Bruxelles, bright rose. 



Leonore, purplish red, very compact, imbricated, and double. 

 Madam Hardy, pure white, large, globular and exquisitely 



double. 



Plantier, pure white, very profuse. 



Moss rose,f delicate rose, globular and perfectly double 

 Comte de Montmorency, pale blush. 



white, old white, expanded and double. 



white bath, or Clifton, white moss, fine white, cupped 



and double. 



crimson or Damask, very bright rose, expanded and 



double, and very mossy. 



f This is not properly a moss rose, 



crested, moss or J but has a curiously mossy calyx 



crested Provins, J that envelopes the bud pink, 

 [_ globular, and double. 



Luxemburg, bright red, compact and double. 



panache, frequently striped. 



perpetual red. 



Hermen Kegel, rosy crimson. 



Grenl. Druoat, red. 



* This Kose, with a "Florist's privilege," has been sold for the 

 yellow siceetbrier. It is also called Hogg's Yellow Rose. 



f It has long been questioned whether the Moss Rose was a dis- 

 tinct species, or merely a seminal variety of the Provins Ruse. I 

 perfectly agree with the latter opinion for in June, 1836, I saw in 

 my nursery a plant of the Moss Rose with a large shoot that had 

 sported back to the Provins Rose, and entirely destitute of moss on 

 either shoots or buds. We have no faith in black and yellow Moss 

 "oses ; alJ we have seen for such have proved false to their character 



