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double, with a calyx whose small, bristling sepals give the open- 

 ing bud the appearance of a small chestnut. The plant is hardy, 

 and has endured the winter in our grounds for the past ten 

 years without protection, losing only a portion of the top of its 

 shoots. Of the several varieties, one of the best is 



Rubra, which has very double and cupped flowers, of a blush 

 and often rose-color, with a deep-red centre. 



ROSES THAT BLOOM ONLY ONCE IN THE SEASON. 



GARDEN ROSES. 



For want of a better, we use this term to designate all those 

 roses that bloom only once in the season, and that strongly re- 

 semble each other in habit and flower. It includes those classes 

 called, by rose-growers, French, Provence, Hybrid Provence, Hy- 

 brid China, Hybrid Bourbon, White and Damask Roses. 



On a preceding page we have given our opinion respecting 

 classification, but we wish it to be understood fully, that we do 

 not deny the existence of clearly distinctive characteristics in the 

 true French, Provence, Damask, &.C., but simply assert that the 

 lines of difference betv>^een these so run into each other, and are 

 so blended together, that it is almost impossible to know where 

 to place a new rose, which may partake of the qualities of all. 

 We have mentioned Rivers as the most skilful and correct of rose- 

 growers ; and yet, in classing Lady Fitzgerald and Madame Har- 

 dy among the Damask, he says that neither of them are pure 

 Damask ; and the Duke of Cambridge, which at first he thought 

 a Hybrid China, he now places among the Damask ; other sim- 

 ilar instances are frequent. Many roses, moreover, are classed as 

 hybrids which are not truly such. We are quite inclined to think 

 that, owing to superfoetation and other unavoidable causes, a 

 large number of the varieties supposed to have been produced by 

 hybridizing, are nothing more than the natural produce, and that 

 the pollen, in many cases, has not impregnated the pistil to which 



