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soon in spring as is practicable, put them in boxes of 

 earth, and then place them in the driest part of an ice- 

 house until the desired time of planting, which may be 

 delayed as long as the required time of flowering. 

 This will be found a true method of retarding the 

 flowering of roses especially, and not going counter to 

 the rules and principles of nature. There are many 

 beautiful varieties of the garden rose in cultivation, 

 the names of the finest of which we will give in the 

 Catalogue, but perhaps it may be proper to mention 

 here a few of the most particular sorts. The finest 

 unquestionably when in bloom, is the Moss and its va- 

 rieties, but the flowering is of so limited duration, that it 

 is in a great degree surpassed by others. There is 

 said to be a striped variety of the Moss Rose, but we 

 do not credit it. The Blush Moss, Clinton White Moss, 

 and Mottled Moss, at present certainly are the most su- 

 perb of that kind. Lee's Crimson Perpetual is a magnifi- 

 cent rose, and flowers in profusion from June to Octo- 

 ber. This is considered, and justly too, the finest of all 

 the garden roses ; its fragrance is exquisite, and the 

 plant highly valued. There is a striped Unique Rose, 

 and a Rosa tricolor, which are much thought of. We 

 have mentioned these as the finest we have seen, but 

 amongst two thousand cultivated varieties of the gar- 

 den rose, there must be many of equal beauty. Of 

 Rosa spinosissima there .are above three hundred varie- 

 ties ; R. gdllica; two hundred ; R. centifolia, one hundred 

 and fifty ; R. damascene, above one hundred ; R. alba, 

 fifty ; R. rubiginosa, thirty ; and of various sorts above 

 eleven hundred. In several individual collections of 



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