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great attention by its peculiar habit and profusion 

 of brilliant bright rose coloured flowers, blooming 

 in June, with a slight tendency to flower again in 

 autumn ; not being fully double, it produced an 

 abundance of seed, from which varieties were ob- 

 tained that bloomed freely the whole season. The 

 only roses known on the island, were the common 

 China, and the Red-four-seasons, till about the year 

 1816, when a Monsieur Perichon was planting a 

 hedge of these, and among his plants found one 

 very different from the others in its shoots and 

 leaves, which induced him to plant it in his gar- 

 den, where it was discovered by a French botanist, 

 and sent home in 1822 to Monsieur Jacques, then 

 gardener at the Chateau de Neuilly ; this accounts 

 for the name of "Bourbon Jacques," frequently 

 given by English growers to the common Bourbon 

 rose. It was introduced to this country, in 1828, 

 by the late Mr. Thomas Hibbert, whose, name will 

 always be associated in the memory of many with 

 rose culture. This association of ideas, connected 

 with a particular subject, often flashes on the mind 

 with the vividness of a sunbeam. The first per- 

 fect specimen I ever saw of this rose, was in the 

 possession of that cultivator, and although it is 

 now fourteen years ago, the spot, the company, 

 the remarks, the very words, all recur to me most 

 forcibly whenever this rose is introduced; "thus 

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