30 THE HYBRID CHINA ROSE. 



rose, all abundant autumnal bloomers, with the 

 farina of a French or Provence rose, and you en- 

 tirely take away the tendency to autumnal bloom- 

 ing in their offspring. They will grow vigorously 

 all the autumn, and give a long, but not a second- 

 ary series of flowers. Some of these hybrid 

 China roses produce seed abundantly, which is 

 rather a remarkable feature, as so few hybrid 

 plants are fertile. 



Hybrids produced from the French rose im- 

 pregnated with the China rose are not of such 

 robust and vigorous habits as when the China rose 

 is the female parent; but, perhaps, this is an 

 assertion scarcely borne out by facts, for the 

 exceptions are numerous, and, like many other 

 variations in roses and plants in general, seem to 

 bid defiance to systematic calculations. By some 

 cultivators the roses of this division have been 

 much more divided than in my catalogue, forming 

 ( Hybrid Noisettes,' ( Hybrid Bourbons,' &c. &c. ; 

 but as these all owe their origin to the common 

 China rose, their offspring may with justice be 

 called Hybrid China roses. I have, however, 

 found the Hybrid Bourbon roses distinct in their 

 characters, and they now form a group, or division, 

 in the catalogue. 



Those that have been raised from Noisette roses 

 have a tendency to produce their flowers in clus- 

 ters ; those from Bourbon roses have their leaves 

 thick, leathery, and round, forming a most dis- 



