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and Tea family; its very large flowers, about three 

 and a half inches in diameter, perfectly double, of a 

 waxy blush colour delicately suffused with white, are 

 objects of great attraction, and admired wherever 

 seen ; it is moreover a very early rose. Whoever has 

 visited the celebrated Bartram Garden,* near this city, 

 about the end of May or first of June, must have been 

 struck with its beauty there, spreading nearly over 

 the whole side of the dwelling, and covered with 

 thousands of pendulous blushing beauties. The vari- 

 ety of names under which it is cultivated (even by 

 individuals that ought to see better) is really amusing. 

 Rose and White Noisette, Striped Noisette, Indica 

 Major, Walton Climber, a new rose from Natchez and 

 some others, of which I have no note, Jluga, or Tea 

 Scented Ayrshire, is evidently a variety between the 

 Tea Rose and the celebated Ayrshire Rose, having the 

 growth and- habit of the latter, with a considerable 

 portion of the delightful fragrance of the former. It 

 is of the niost delicate blush colour, and tolerably dou- 

 ble; a profuse bloomer, and seeds freely. It does well 

 as a pillar Rose, but has not wood nor foliage sufficient 

 for covering walls or arbours. Fortunes Yellow is not 

 worth a passing remark, if it was not for its assuming 

 name. Colour, when grown under glass, a creamy 



• Now Bartram Hall, the property of A. M. Eastwick, Esq. 

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