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growth; leaves pubescent, and in general placed 

 far asunder; prickles on most of the varieties 

 abundant. To those old members of this family, 

 the red and the white monthly, which by some 

 peculiar excitability often put forth flowers in 

 warm moist autumns, nearly all our perpetual 

 roses owe their origin, so that we can now depend 

 upon having roses as fragrant in October as in 

 June. The York and Lancaster rose, with pale 

 striped flowers, is one of the oldest varieties of 

 this division in our gardens. There is perhaps a 

 little too much sameness of character in some of 

 the varieties of the Damask rose ; their gradations 

 of colour are sometimes too delicate to be distinct, 

 but the following may be depended upon as fine 

 leading sorts. 



Arlinde, a beautifully-formed rose, of a delicate 

 rose colour, is not a pure damask, as its foliage is 

 less pubescent than in some other varieties. Angele 

 is a pretty bright-coloured rose, very double and 

 distinct. Blanche borde de Rouge is a fine rose 

 when it opens well, but in moist weather its petals 

 are too numerous to expand freely ; sometimes its 

 flowers are pure white, at others finely margined 

 with purplish red. Bachelier, so named from a 

 Belgian amateur, is one of the finest show-roses 

 in this division, producing large double compact 

 flowers, of a fine rose-colour, and very perfect 

 shape. Climene is a new variety with rather 

 small beautifully- shaped flowers of a very brilliant 



