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and flowers. For this purpose it is better on its 

 own roots, as budded plants so treated would 

 throw up too many suckers. The French Crimson 

 Moss is deeper in colour, and much more double 

 than the preceding, not such a luxuriant grower 

 but one of the best Moss Koses we have. Eclatante 

 is a Moss Rose quite worthy of notice ; for it is so 

 vigorous in its growth, that it soon forms a fine 

 tree : its colour is remarkably bright. 



Moussue Partout is indeed all over moss ; for 

 its leaves, branches, and buds are thickly covered. 

 The flowers of this singular variety are much like 

 the common Moss Rose. The Prolific Moss is not 

 the Prolifere of the French, but a dwarf variety 

 of the common Moss, and a most abundant 

 bloomer. This is known by the French florists 

 as the Minor Moss : it is a most excellent variety 

 to keep in pots for forcing. The Pompone Moss, 

 or Mossy de Meaux, has for some years been a 

 great favourite. This rose was found by Mr. 

 Sweet, of the Bristol Nursery, at a garden at 

 Taunt on, Somersetshire, in 1814. He obtained 

 possession of the plant for five pounds ; and after- 

 wards distributed the young plants at one guinea 

 each. It was most probably an accidental sport 

 from the Old Rose de Meaux, and not from seed, 

 as that rose is too double to bear seed, in this 

 country : this is one of the prettiest of roses, and 

 one of the first to make its appearance in June, 

 gladdening us with its early clusters of small and 



