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pale flesh-colour ; it is also much more delicate 

 in habit. 



Celina is one of the very best dark crimson 

 Moss Roses we yet possess ; its foliage has a pecu- 

 liarly dark glossy-green tint, quite distinct; its 

 flowers are large and double, but not quite full to 

 the centre ; colour very brilliant, but deep crimson, 

 in some seasons slightly tinged with purple : this 

 has to a certain extent superseded the Luxembourg 

 Moss, which only a few years since was our only 

 deep-coloured Moss Rose. Its habit is not quite so 

 robust as that of the latter, which in some soils is 

 almost too much so, making shoots six feet in length 

 in moist seasons. We have now also what was 

 at one time thought to be impossible, viz. the Old 

 Rose Unique mossed ; this is called Moss Unique 

 de Provence. I cannot learn its origin ; if from 

 seed or otherwise ; but am inclined to think it is 

 a sport from our old favourite the Unique Rose ; 

 its habit is similar and equally robust ; its flowers 

 of the same pure white, and blooming in the 

 same large clusters ; its flowers are however often 

 imperfect. 



In Comtesse de Murinais we have a vigorous 

 white Moss Rose, a most remarkable variety, evi- 

 dently resulting from a cross with the Damask 

 Rose, of which it largely partakes in its foliage 

 and general habit ; this is so robust that young 

 plants often make shoots more than six feet 

 in length, of the thickness of a stout riding- 



