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able these roses are, when it is stated that, by 

 retarding and forcing, they may be made to bloom 

 for eight months in the year. 



Perpetual Damask Roses do not bear seed in 

 this country freely ; but Mogador may be planted 

 near and fertilised with the Common Bourbon. 

 An attempt to obtain a mossy Crimson Perpetual 

 might be made by planting and fertilising the 

 Crimson Perpetual with the Single Crimson 

 Moss. In the cultivation of roses and many 

 other gardening operations, we must never really 

 despair. 



THE HYBRID PERPETUAL ROSE. 

 (Rosier Hybride Remontante.) 



THIS class has now become rich in beautiful 

 roses. In p. 29 is given the origin of Hybrid 

 China Roses, which, it is well known, bloom but 

 once in the season. Some of these hybrids or 

 mules, unlike many plants of the same descrip- 

 tion, bear seed freely. These fertile varieties 

 have been crossed with different varieties of China 

 and Bourbon Roses. From seed thus produced 

 we have gained a new race of autumnal roses, 

 bearing abundance of flowers during the whole of 

 the summer and autumn, and now called Hybrid 

 Perpetuals. Certainly a more beautiful and in- 

 teresting class of roses does not exist ; their flowers 



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