6Q EOSES THAT BLOOx^I IN JUNE. 



Fabvier, or Col. Fabvier, is a splendid pink changing 

 to red ; flowers imbricated, large, and very double ; 

 the plant forms a splendid pillar, and is one of the 

 strongest growing hybrids. Fleurette is a pretty pale 

 coloured rose, very perfect, but perhaps too small for 

 the general taste of growers. Gen^l Lamarque, or 

 Lamarque of Luxembourg, is a bronzed mottled crim- 

 son of curious shades, a large flower, always very dis- 

 tinct, perfectly double, and a strong grower. George 

 the Fourth, or Rivers^ George the Fourth, is an old but 

 splendid variety, of the richest crimson colour, always 

 perfect, and fully double, of cupped form, a free 

 grower in rich soils, and makes a splendid pillar rose. 

 Mr. Rivers, of England, a celebrated rose grower, 

 raised this variety from seed, thirty years ago; accord- 

 ing to his own history of the plant, it came up in a 

 bed of seedlings, unexpected, and without any act on 

 his part to produce it. This shows that superior 

 varieties may be grovrn from seeds saved indiscrimi- 

 nately from choice sorts, without the aid of hybrid- 

 izing, which I will prove still more clearly. How- 

 ever, through the manual hybridizing process great 

 improvements have been, and are constantly being 

 made. Georgia is an old distinct variety, being a 

 briglit rose, with white edge, large and fine, but rather 

 tender for a northern latitude. Grillony, is a large 

 and superb rose, of a slaty colour and strong growth. 



