

1 88 FLOWER.GARDEN-CHINA ROSES. [APRIL. 



shoots and leaves are of a purple hue. It grows and 

 flowers freely, and is quite characteristic, and surpasses 

 any we know for flowering early in the Green-house or 

 Rooms. 



No. 31. Rosa Montezuma (Mexican-rose.) This is 

 an esteemed variety, with large double flowers of a red 

 colour, and when the flowers begin to fade they become 

 darker; it is of a strong growing and hardy nature, 

 much admired, and scarce. 



No. 32. Rosa horiensia. The buds of this rose are 

 very beautiful before expansion, and when fully ex- 

 panded, are of a fine colour, assimilated to No. 8; 

 flowers large in proportion to the growth of the plant. 

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These roses are all of a shrubby nature, and the 

 finest flowering varieties that have come under our ob- 

 servation and culture. The China roses generally are 

 not completely double, though going under the name 

 of double flowers, and having the appearance of such. 

 Those that are mentioned above as double and very dou- 

 ble are those that are more double than No. 1, which 

 is a rose that is generally known. The whole of them 

 are much admired, and being now of great variety in 

 colour, shade and aspect, constitute a valuable addition 

 to the Flower-garden. A bed of varieties planted 

 therein in good light rich soil, and well dressed by hoe- 

 ing deep, raking, &c. during the early stage of their 

 growth every season, will form an ornament varied in 

 colour, unrivalled, and as yet not found in our Flower- 

 gardens. Their nature agrees so well with our summer 

 seasons, that it will not surprise us to see, in a few 



