March,'] ' ROSES. 51 



Moss crimson or Daraask, very bright rose, expanded and 



double, and very mossy. 



f This is not properly a moss rose, 

 crested moss or j but has a curiously mossy calyx 



crested Provins, } that envelops the bud — pink, 

 (^ globular, and double. 



Luxemburg, bright red, compact and double. 



panache, frequently striped. 



perpetual red. 



white, blooming in clusters. 



unique de Provence, white. 



Negritina, pink, very compact, imbricated and double. 

 Nonpareil, rosy red, compact and perfectly double. 

 Oillet parfait, striped like a carnation. 

 Perlet des panaches, striped rose and wbite. 



red, see red Provins. 



white, see white Provins. 



Prince de Joinville, bright rose, large, expanded and finely 



double. 

 Prolific blush, changeable blush, expanded and double. 

 Provins cabbage, see Cahhaije Provins. 

 Queen of violets, violet color, compact, cupped and very 



double. 



of Roses, beautiful rosy purple, imbricated and double. 



Caroline, fine changeable red, cupped and double. 



Sweetbrier, single pink. 



celestial, blush, fine double flowered. 



Swiss Kose, large pink, exj^anded, and profusely double. 

 Unique or white Provins, pure white, very large, globular, 



and double, superb. 

 Unique striped, often is perfectly wliite, and merely a sport 



from the former. 

 Vandal carmine, conrpact, imbricated, and double. 

 Village Maid, or Belle Rubine, striped. 

 Violatum, violet purple, expanded and double. 

 Yellow Persian, the finest yellow rose grown. 



We mention these as fine ; but, among several thousand 

 cultivated varieties of the garden rose, there must be many 

 of equal, if not surpassing beauty; of Rosa sj^inosissima, 

 there are about five hundred varieties ; Posa (jallica, two 

 hundred ; R. cenfifblia, one hundred and fifty ; R. damas- 



