THE AUTUMNAL ROSE GARDEN. 13C 



growth, with double pale pink flowers, of the 

 most perfect shape. 



Queen of the Bourbons is a fine variety, and 

 very beautiful. Its flowers are of a vivid rose- 

 colour, a little tinged with buff, very large and 

 double. Phoenix is nearly a true Bourbon Rose 

 of a fine rosy red. 



Rivers, so named by a French rose cultivator, 

 who raised it from seed, is a pretty delicate rose, 

 a true Bourbon ; and called by the originator an 

 " extra fine rose:" it has not yet bloomed here 

 well enough to support that character. Thimocles 

 is a large and fine rose, very double, and a 

 genuine Bourbon, of luxuriant growth, and distinct 

 character. Victoire Argentee is one of those 

 beautiful silvery-pale roses, with very double 

 flowers, which often refuse to open freely. 

 The White Bourbon, or Julie de Loynes, was 

 raised from seed by Monsieur Desprez, who an- 

 nually raises immense numbers of Bourbon and 

 other roses from seed, to procure new varieties. 

 This rose is a little hybridised with the Noisette, 

 which has given it a clustered character, and, 

 unfortunately, taken from its flowers that bold 

 and peculiar shape, so beautiful in the Bourbon 

 Roses. The French cultivators are at deadly 

 strife respecting this rose ; some swearing, by all 

 their saints, that it is a veritable Bourbon, while 

 others as stoutly maintain that it is a Noisette 

 Rose. An Englishman, after listening to such 



