28 THE SUMMER ROSE GARDEN. 



variety of the preceding, with smaller petals, and 

 a greater proportion of white in them ; probably, 

 it owes its origin to a sporting branch of the 

 original Tricolor. Tricolor superba is one of the 

 finest of the striped roses : its ground colour is of 

 the darkest crimson, on which its regular stripes 

 of nearly pure white have a good effect ; it also 

 bids fair to be constant in its variegation. 



Triomphe de Rennes is a very large and finely- 

 shaped show rose : the habit of the plant is also 

 most luxuriant, and it forms a fine standard. 

 Tullie is a very large rose, of a bright rose- 

 coloured ground, distinctly and largely spotted. 

 The Prince, bright red, spotted with blush, is 

 a very remarkable and pretty rose. Like all 

 the roses of this colour, it requires to be kept 

 from the sun. The Village Maid, or Provins 

 Panachee, is now a well-known rose, varying so 

 much in colour, in different soils, that many assert 

 there are two or three varieties ; but this is not 

 the case, for there is as yet but one Village Maid 

 Rose, which, in some situations, has red or car 

 nation coloured, in others slate-coloured or purple, 

 stripes. 



Uniflore Marbree has a tendency to produce its 

 flowers on single footstalks, whence its name. It 

 is a good-shaped and very double rose, beautifully 

 marbled. 



New varieties of this family are raised with 

 such facility that it would lengthen this little 



