470 GARDEN PLANTS. PART II. 



established in India not one certainly of the sweet and com- 

 pletely double varieties that in past years were so much the 

 ornament of English gardens, as indeed of some few they even 

 now are. 



HYBRID PROVENCE : HYBRID CHINA : HYBRID BOURBON : ROSA 

 ALBA : ROSA GALLICA : ROSA SPINOSISSIMA. 



Of these several groups, hardly a Kose will be found to 

 which the climate of India is adapted. Of the Hybrid Provence 

 and Hybrid China groups, plants introduced by me existed in 

 a very unthriving condition in my garden more than a year. 

 Of Hybrid Bourbons, Charles Duval, Paul Perras, and Paul 

 Eicaut have been introduced, and found to thrive vigorously, 

 but produce no flowers. Of the remaining three groups I am 

 not aware that I have seen a single Eose in this country. 



Eosa rubiginosa. 



SWEETBRIAR EGLANTINE. 



Common in all parts of India; bears small pink, single 

 flowers, does not bear the knife well, and will not blossom if 

 pruned; can only be propagated by budding, grafting, or 

 sowing the seed, but not by cuttings. It produces seed in the 

 Agri-Horticultural Society's Gardens, which is gathered when 

 quite ripe and sown immediately. It takes twelve or eighteen 

 months to germinate. 



Rosa lutea. 



AUSTRIAN BRIAR. 



The only Eose of this group I have seen in India was one 

 which, when I resided at Ferozepore, I obtained from Peshawur, 

 from cuttings conveyed in a letter, and nearly dried up by 

 a five-days' journey in September. I removed several buds, 

 which I inserted upon stems of the Eose Edouard. They 

 nearly all took. It was a pretty variety, with sweet-scented 

 leaves, and blossomed in March with a profusion of single, 

 golden-yellow, rather evanescent flowers, but making for the 

 time a most beautiful display. 



PERSIAN YELLOW. This, the only one of its group con- 

 sidered worthy of cultivation in England, bears deep golden- 



