58 ROSES THAT BLOOM IN JUNE. 



other sort that fancy may dictate, selecting those 

 that have regularly formed flowers without being 

 crowded with petals, Andre Thouin, Arethusa, 

 Bicolor, Village Maid, and Tricolor Superba. 

 Seeds from these will produce every imaginable 

 variety, from blush to crimson. 



KOSA ALBA. 



WHITE GAUDEX HOSE. 



THE white rose of the gardens has been culti- 

 vated from time immemorial. Although the origi- 

 nal single white or blush has seldom been seen in 

 cultivation, yet the double is very frequent, keeping 

 ward at the door of the cottage, or towering by the 

 window casements of our oldest homesteads. It 

 is often called the white climbing rose. It must 

 have been introduced^ by our pilgrim fathers a fit 

 emblem of their purity, and smiling memorial of 

 the land of their nativity. It is rather remarkable 

 that among the many new varieties of the rose, 

 there are so few whites ; and those I will introduce- 

 under this head, belong perhaps more properly to 

 the Damask or Gallica species ; yet I am convinced 

 they will be more in their place at the head of this 



