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Madame Nachury, and Gloire de Bourg-la-Reine ; others do not 

 open well, like Pierre Notting, Empress of India, and La France. 

 Some are slow growers, others have delicate stems. A few are 

 subject to mildew, which spreads and affects otheis, and should not 

 have a place in the garden, like the Countess of Oxford, Sir Garnet 

 Wolseley, and Caroline de Sansal. Nearl}^ every best rose that is 

 grown has some defects, and many are somewhat tender, like 

 Marquise deCastellpne, Baroness Rothschild, and Eugenie Verdier. 

 The best and most certain means for preservation of rose trees 

 that have a delicate habit is to give plenty of air and sunshine, the 

 influence of which agents hardens the texture of the wood and 

 renders it impenetrable to insects. The largest intelligence, united 

 with constant vigilance, will reward us annually with only a few 

 flowers which have the requisite qualities of richness and per- 

 manency of colors combined with fulness and gracefulness of 

 form, and sweet odor. 



Autumn flowers, I am inclined to believe, are improved when 

 grown on trees raised from cuttings rather than from the bud or 

 graft; for those that are worked are in an artificial condition, and 

 less able to contend throughout the season with adverse influences 

 than such as carry their sap in continuous currents. The luxuriantly 

 growing wood should be allowed to bear moderatel}' until the time 

 for the late blooms. Erangois Michelon, Fisher Holmes, Monsieur 

 Noman, Marguerite de St. Amand, Victor Verdier, Boieldieu, 

 Annie "VYood, and Alfred Colomb are esteemed for large, hand- 

 some, late flowers. 



When blooming in native wildness and simplicity the rose is 

 universally admired bj' the botanist, while it has manv attractions 

 to the casual observer ; and the wild roses of our woods and hedges, 

 though of a simple type, are the impersonations of elegance and 

 beauty. They adorn the solitude where they grow ; and glancing, 

 half concealed, from their green bowers must have reminded the 

 Pilgrim, in the wilderness, of home. In connection with the de- 

 lightful study of botany, our lovers of scientific explorations and 

 of beauty in the field could add attractive graces to our highways 

 and by-ways by adopting the customs of the Hungarians, among 

 whom the finest kinds of roses are found blooming in unfrequented 

 places, produced by budding the wild varieties, which the ladies 

 of rank and fashion do in their rambles. 



We cannot but decide that the Eemontants are of a most het- 

 erogeneous character, and that the varieties are so different in 



