14 THE MOSS ROSE. 



cane. Its flower buds are well mossed, but its 

 flowers are not very double ; they are large, very 

 slightly tinged with blush when they first open, 

 and soon change to pure white. I attach some 

 value to this rose, for I anticipate that, by crossing 

 it with the Perpetual White Moss, seed may be 

 easily obtained, which will, I trust, in the course 

 of time, give us some autumnal-blooming white 

 Moss Koses. 



Moussue Presque Partout is a very pretty bril- 

 liant rose-coloured rose, its leaves and branches 

 are nearly covered with moss, and it has not 

 that blighted appearance peculiar to its congener 

 Moussue Partout. In the variety Princesse Ade- 

 laide, raised from seed by M. Laffay, we have a 

 proof of the effect of hybridising roses, for this is 

 most evidently and distinctly a hybrid Bourbon 

 rose, with its flower buds rather abundantly 

 covered with moss ; in fact, a hybrid Moss Rose 

 of a new race ; its habit is remarkably vigorous, 

 foliage very large and beautiful, flowers well 

 shaped, and in general they open freely ; their 

 colour in dry weather is a very lively pink, in 

 cloudy moist weather a bright rose. This variety 

 will form a fine pillar rose, as it will in rich soils 

 make shoots from six to eight feet long in one 

 season, consequently there cannot be a finer object 

 for a column ; another step, and we should have 

 had in this a Mossy Bourbon Rose, blooming in 

 autumn. Alas ! in hybridising Moss Roses it is 



