2i8 THE ROSE. 



named are of such delicate habit that they 

 will never be useful for general culture. 



The Polyantha Rose is of recent introduc- 

 tion. The original, which is a native of 

 Japan, has very small, single white flowers, 

 about the size of a silver twenty-five-cent 

 piece ; it is of sarmentous growth, quite hardy, 

 and blooms in panicles, in the spring. Some 

 of the French growers have raised seedlings, 

 crosses (natural or artificial) with Teas or 

 other classes, which are true ever-blooming 

 roses and of great merit. The varieties best 

 known are Paquerette, Anne Marie de Mon- 

 travel, Mignonette, and Cecile Brunner. 

 They are more tender than the parent, but 

 are quite as hardy as the Hybrid Noisettes 

 and the Hybrid Teas. As an edging for a 

 bed of monthly roses, nothing can be more 

 effective than a row or two of Paquerette or 

 one of the other Polyanthas. They are ex- 

 tremely beautiful little flowers, which will 

 survive all the sneers of the horticultural 

 snobs who see no beauty in a rose much 

 smaller in size than a peony. 



The attention of hybridizers is now di- 

 rected toward crossing varieties of Tea with 

 Hybrid Remontant roses, and new sorts of 

 great value may confidently be expected from 



