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be recognized as such. The popularity of the old 

 variety has given circulation to many of the inferior 

 new ones, which, after having been seen in bloom, 

 are frequently thro'.vn aside as worthless. They are 

 generally hardy, in dr}' soils giving a succession of 

 flowers throughout the season. They are adapted for 

 training against fences, or low out-buildings, or they 

 may be formed into handsome bushes of any shape ; 

 but a hedo-e of them is the beau ideal of the flower 

 garden, which all may enjoy in any latitude south of 

 this. The following sorts are worthy of all requisite 

 culture, and will grow freely in an}" rich soil, avoiding 

 low wet situations. Carnea or Rosea, is the old variety 

 known as the JMicrophylla Rose; its character is 

 unique, with small neat dark green foliage. The 

 flowers are large and very double, of a rose colour, 

 produced at the extremity of the young shoots, in 

 twos or threes, according to the strength of the plant; 

 the calyx (the green cup round the base of the fl.ower) 

 is thick and prickly; hence it is called the "Burr 

 Rose." Coccinea, and the beautiful dark variety Ru' 

 bra, are in every particular the same, except the 

 latter being darker in colour. J\"eio White Micro- 

 phylla would be a very desirable variety, but the pre- 

 sent subject is only a pale blush and very mediocre 

 at that ; foliage similar to the old microphylla. Rubra 

 Variegata does not merit the variegated distinction,* 



