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lowing are the most distinct varieties of European 

 origin. La Miniature, a bright pink rose, perfect 

 in character, with the flower about the size of half 

 a dime, the plant about six inches high when full 

 grown. Gloire, crimson, in size and growth rather 

 larger than the former. Pompon, of the French, 

 is our old Indica Minor, from which no doubt they 

 have originated. Bijou is a clear rose colour, very 

 similar to the first named, but a few shades darker. 

 There is also the Pretty American, a plant of low 

 stature, never exceeding six or seven inches in 

 height, grown by Mr. Boll, of New York. And 

 last and least, we copy from the third volume of 

 Hovey's Magazine of Horticulture an account of 

 the Prince of Dwarfs, which originated at Mr. S. 

 Feasts, of Baltimore. When three years old, the 

 Master Burke had fine full blown and very double 

 flowers ; and the half of a common hen's egg-shell 

 would have covered the whole bush without touch- 

 ing it. This I saw and assert to be a fact. It is 

 now seven or eight years old, flowers regularly 

 every year, affording wood for propagation, and 

 has never yet attained two inches in height, nor its 

 whole top exceeded one, or one and a half inch 

 in diameter ; the rose is about the size of a buck- 

 shot." The article was written by a gentleman 

 of high standing, with whom I am personally ac- 



