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2. The Eoses of eastern Asia ; such as the China, Bengal, and 

 Bourbon Hoses, which bloom nearly throughout the whole year. 



Now scarcely a Kose of the first of these groups has been 

 found to succeed in this country ; while the Roses of the 

 second group, as far as my observation goes, bloom far more 

 beautifully in India than in England. 



But from crossing and interbreeding the Roses of the two 

 groups, cultivators have raised of late years an immense number 

 of hybrids, and for the guidance of those who wish to procure 

 any of these hybrids from Europe it may, I believe, be laid 

 down as a rule, that the more the hybrid has of the blood (to 

 speak familiarly) of the second group, the more likely it is to 

 succeed in this country, and the more of the first group the less 

 likely. Roses, for instance, of the classes called Hybrid China 

 and Hybrid Bourbon, producing flowers of great beauty, owe so 

 much of their parentage to the first group that they inherit 

 from it the property of blooming only in summer, arid none of 

 these, be it observed, have been found to answer in this country. 

 By crossing again, however, these hybrids, so as to throw into 

 their progeny a greater affinity to some Rose of the second group, 

 new hybrids are produced which possess this property, viz., that 

 after blooming in June and July, from out the flowering shoots 

 fresh, or as they are sometimes termed secondary, shoots break 

 forth, which produce flowers in the autumn. Hybrids that 

 possess this property are what are called by the French Hebrides 

 Remontants, and by the English Hybrid Perpetuals. The more, 

 then, a Rose possesses of this property the more we may 

 conclude that it is suited to this country. 



3. Of climbing Roses notice will be taken further on. 

 Cultivators in England arrange Roses in two great divisions, 



according to the season in which they bloom. The Roses of the 

 first division are called Summer Roses, from blooming only in 

 the summer ; those of the second division Autumnal Roses, from 

 there blooming in the autumn as well as in the summer. For 

 convenience I adopt the same arrangement, observing that in 

 this country the autumnal Roses often put forth poor, small, 

 semi-double flowers during the Rains, blossom in perfection 

 in November or December, and again, but not so finely, in 

 February. The Summer Roses blossom only in February or 

 March. 



