ROSES THAT BLOOM THE WHOLE SEASON. 147 



REMONTANTES, 



OR HYBRID PERPETUAL ROSE. 



THIS is a new tribe, that has originated within a 

 few years, between the Perpetual and Bourbon 

 Roses, possessing the beauty and fragrance of the 

 former with the growth and foliage of the latter ; 

 they produce an abundance of flowers from June 

 to November; they open a field of pleasure to 

 the northern grower and amateur, which had 

 hitherto, been reserved only to the rose fanciers of 

 more favoured climes. They are equally as hardy 

 as the common garden rose ; and by careful culti- 

 vation, good soil, frequent waterings in dry weather, 

 depriving them of all faded flower-stems, they will 

 show flowers the whole season till destroyed by 

 frost. Their general habit is robust and vigorous 

 to a remarkable degree ; their flowers large, per- 

 fect, fragrant, and of almost every colour. We 

 cannot give any idea of the beauty they may attain 

 to in the southern states, where the soil is so genial 

 to their culture, but they cannot fail to grow and 

 flower to the satisfaction of the most, fastidious 

 taste. The varieties are yet limited, compared 

 with many of the families we have described, but 



