ROSES THAT BLOOM THE WHOLE SEASON. 135 



popular of the whole family of the " Queen of Flow- 

 ers ^" that prediction is now literally fulfilled, in the 

 great demand by all the admirers and cultivators of 

 the rose, for the varieties of this family. Our readers 

 will allow that the taste thus created within a few 

 years is not to be wondered at, when we have held 

 up to their admiration the choice bouquet of these 

 flowers which we are now about to present. As this 

 family has become so very popular, its history, no 

 doubt, will prove interesting to many, and is indeed 

 worthy of some attention. 



The first rose is said to have been imported from 

 the Isle of Bourbon to France in 1822, and is there 

 known in the catalosrue of the French o-rowers as 

 Rose de Pile de Bourbon. It attracted great atten- 

 tion by its peculiar habit and profusion of brilliant 

 bright rose-coloured flowers, blooming in June, with 

 a slight tendency to flower again in autumn ; not 

 being fully double, it produced an abundance of seed, 

 from which varieties were obtained that bloomed 

 freely the whole season. The only roses known on 

 the island, were the common China, and the Red- 

 four-seasons, till about the year 1816, when a Mon- 

 sieur Perichon was planting a hedge of these, among 

 his plants found one very different from the others in 

 its shoots and leaves, which induced him to plant it 

 in his garden, where it was discovered by a French 



