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and Marie de Bourgogne, both dwarf and free 

 blooming ; and then we have as new roses of this 

 class, Imperatrice Eugenie, and Alfred de Dalmas, 

 both of them pretty, but not very distinct ; and 

 Emile de GKrardin and Gloire d'Orient, vigorous 

 growers, but not well inclined to bloom in autumn. 

 There are many other varieties of this family in 

 the rose catalogues, but none equal to Madame 

 Ory in beauty and fragrance of her flowers, and 

 none to be compared with Salet for 'the beauty of 

 its buds ; in September, its flowers are not perfect 

 when open, but its buds are fragrant as those of 

 the old Moss Eose in June. So let us dismiss 

 our new friends with a hope and certain anti- 

 cipation of much ultimate improvement in variety 

 of colour and tendency to give us moss roses 

 in autumn. The culture of these hybrid moss 

 roses should be the same as that of the Hybrid 

 Perpetual s, but to ensure their blooming freely in 

 autumn, they should be lifted and replanted with 

 some fresh compost annually in November. 



THE PEEPETUAL DAMASK EOSE. 

 (Rosier Damas a fleurs perpetuelles.) 



THIS division has as much variety in its origin as 

 in its appearance ; it would, indeed, be a difficult 

 task to trace the parentage of some of the justly 



