VARIETIES DESCRIBED. 23 



in this country as Rosa mundi,* we owe all our 

 striped rcses of this family. Our Village Maid 

 or La Villageoise, now an old variety, was one 

 of the earliest" proceeds from the above : this is 

 now a well-known, and, in some seasons, a very 

 beautiful striped rose. (Eillet Parfait is a rose 

 raised in the west of France, and given out to 

 the world before its qualities were appreciated. 

 It is a hybrid between the Damask and the 

 French rose, so exactly like a carnation in its 

 beautifully-striped flowers as scarcely to be dis- 

 tinguished from one : its ground colour is pale 

 blush, striped distinctly with dark red and crimson: 

 no other variegated rose approaches it in beauty. 

 Perle des Panachees, with flowers of a pure 

 white, striped with lilac and red, is an acquisition ; 

 and Tricolor de Flandres, a new and very double 

 striped rose, may be retained. 



THE DWARF FRENCH ROSE. 



THE Burgundy Rose, a very old variety, holds 

 the same place among French Roses as the Rose 

 de Meaux among the Provence: it is a pretty 

 little rose, very double, and of a bright rose- 

 colour ; useful as an edging rose, and interesting 



* How this name came to be attached, I am at a loss to con- 

 jecture. Redoute says, ' Les Anglais 1'ont appelee Rosemonde 

 du nom de la belle et spirituelle maitresse de Henri II.' 



