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is so perfectly double that it rarely produces seed. 

 Although many European growers recognize and 

 sell several varieties of Banksia Roses, yet there 

 are only two, in our opinion, that deserve atten- 

 tion; the others are hybrids, mere misnomers. One 

 catalogue offers twenty-one varieties, all beautifully 

 named, our goodly city being complimented by 

 Philadelphia having a place in the list. The 

 flowers are produced on the small twigy branches, 

 hence it is important to divest the plants of any long 

 rampant growth, that it may set forth, unless it is 

 required to lay in to fill up any vacancy. The 

 White Banksian Rose has flowers little more than 

 half an inch in diameter, which are of the purest 

 white, with a delicate pink centre of a very de- 

 lightful violet perfume, and are produced in a pro- 

 fusion of small clusters. The Yellow Banksian 

 Rose has pale yellow, or straw-coloured flowers, in 

 size rather larger than the white, being perfectly 

 imbricated, and really gems of beauty, but without 

 odour ; if either this or the white were to be seen 

 apart from the plant, by the inexperienced, they 

 would never be taken for a rose, so unlike are they 

 to any of the tribe. Travellers inform us that these 

 roses are cultivated in China, under the name of 

 Wongmoue-heong, where a pink variety has been 

 seen, for which as yet. we have longed in vain, but 

 it may now be confidently expected from the many 



