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double. Renoncule Ponctvee is very double, beauti- 

 fully spotted and marbled "vvith rose, crimson, and 

 white ; nothing; in the division like it. Tricolor Su- 

 pcrba is a double crimson, with larga petals, shaded 

 and marked with rose and white. Panache i Dou-jle^ 

 Village Maid., or Bell Riibine^ v/as the first of the fine 

 double striped roses, and has been cultivated and sold 

 under these three names ; the flow^ers are perfectly 

 double, and very like a fine Bizarre Carnation, having 

 stripes of deep rose, pink, and white, regularly over 

 the petals, from the base to the apex.* 



There are few indeed of the striped and spotted 

 roses deserving the great eulogiums and extravagant 

 descriptions given them by growers and writers. The 

 new sorts have added little to redeem the old, 

 They require to be seen in bloom before they are 

 served up to the better tastes of our American rose 

 fanciers. 



From the above it will be seen that this class of 

 roses are rapidly multiplying, and with perseverance 

 and attention we may raise as fine kinds in this coun- 

 try as they do in France ; for they appear to seed in 

 great abundance. The variegated kinds do not make 

 such strong wood, generally speaking, as those of uni- 



* This rose, like all of the striped and spotted sorts, reverts 

 back to self-colours. 1 have whole plants of it of a rosy lilac 

 colour. 



