98 ROSES THAT BLOOM THE WHOLE SEASON. 



Smithii, is a great favourite through the southern 

 states, growing freely, and opening in great per- 

 fection, except iii time of rain ; the colour is of a 

 pale lemon-yellow before the sun destroys it, and 

 is delightfully fragrant, though entirely too tender 

 for the open air in Pennsylvania; it makes a 

 splendid rose for forcing if kept in a high and 

 rather dry atmosphere, but if syringed with water 

 before the flowers are expanded, it glues the petals 

 together, and they perish before opening. When I 

 first introduced this rose I could not supply all the 

 demands for it the first year, at five dollars each 

 plant. Madam Byrne and Cora L. Barton were 

 produced from the same hip of seed from La- 

 marque, and are roses very distinct both in habit 

 and colour. Madam Byrne is a yellowish-white, 

 with a pink centre, large, and very double ; the 

 wood is very slender, but of free growth, and 

 makes a beautiful pillar plant ; from the same seed 

 I obtained also a bright scarlet rose, perfectly single, 

 which shows that almost every variety of colour 

 may be produced from the same rose, at the same 

 time, and without artificial impregnation, but by 

 the assistance of art, both character and colour may 

 be greatly improved. Nankin, or Mutabilis, is of 

 a yellowish-nankin colour in cloudy weather, but 

 when fully expanded, with the sun in full blaze 

 upon the flowers, they are nearly pure white. It 



