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botanist, and sent home in 1822 to Monsieur Jacques, 

 then gardener at the Chateau de Neuilly ; this accounts 

 for the name of "Bourbon Jacques," frequently given 

 by English growers to the common Bourbon Rose. 

 It was introduced to this country, in 1828, by the late 

 Mr. Thomas Hibbert, whose name will always be 

 associated in the memory of many with rose culture. 

 This association of ideas, connected with a particular 

 subject, often flashes on the mind with the vividness of 

 a sunbeam. The first perfect specimen 1 ever saw of 

 this rose, was in the possession of that cultivator, and 

 although it is now over twenty years ago, thp spot, 

 thee ompany, the remarks, the very words, all occur 

 to me most forcibly whenever this rose is introduced ; 

 "thus thought follows thought, according to the order 

 in which object and events are related to each other." 

 The perpetuity of bloom, and the hardy nature of the 

 Bourbon Rose fills up a chasm that had long been de- 

 plored by amateurs and cultivators in northern lati- 

 tudes. They are decidedly more robust, and with- 

 stand a greater degree of cold than either the Noisette, 

 Tea, or Bengal roses. It is now our impression, that 

 in a few years, these with the "Remontante" family, 

 will be the only roses cultivated in all the states north 

 of Virginia ; and there is no reason why, in time, 

 there should not be among them specimens exhibiting 

 all the distinctive varieties disseminated amons other 



