6 THE PROVENCE ROSE. 



describing this and the next division I shall have 

 occasion to notice more of these spontaneous 

 deviations. The Striped Unique is one ; for this 

 was not raised from seed, but, a flowering branch 

 of the Unique Provence having produced striped 

 flowers, plants were budded from it, and the 

 variety was ' fixed,' as the French florists term it. 

 However this is certainly not fixed ; for it is a 

 most inconstant rose, in some soils producing 

 flowers beautifully striped, in others entirely red, 

 and in the soil of this nursery most frequently 

 pure white. 



The Dwarf Provence Koses, Rose de Meaux, 

 and the Pompone Eose, are among the oldest 

 of our garden roses, and known by every child 

 brought up in a garden, as they are ( so early and 

 so pretty.' Formerly two or three varieties of 

 the Pompone Rose were cultivated, but they dif- 

 fered only in name. The Rose de Meaux forms 

 a pretty edging, and is desirable for its spring- 

 gladdening flowers. Spong's Rose is of this 

 group, with rather larger flowers : it forces well, 

 and is a pretty rose. 



There are no new Provence Roses, for, like 

 most of the summer roses, they are not esteemed 

 as formerly, owing to their blooming but once in 

 the season ; still a bouquet of Old Cabbage Roses, 



stem of a carnation, which should give striped flowers uniform 

 with the rest, will often produce plain-coloured flowers ; it is 

 then said ' to sport.' 



