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it foster-parent for the Teas wliicli are worked 

 out cf doors, but under glass I know of nothing 

 equal to it. Lamarque is a superior old wliite 

 rose, wliicli lias somewhat gone out of cultiva- 

 tion ; but this should not be, for it retains the 

 clustering tendency of the race and produces an 

 immense quantity of flowers during the season. 

 It is a noble rose. Nearly all th*e fine Tea- 

 ]^oisettes are traced back to Lamarque. Besides 

 those already named, we have Cehne Forestier, 

 Mme. Caroline Kuster, Triomphe de Eennes, 

 and W. A. Eichardson, all fine yellow roses, of 

 healthy habit and easy of cultivation. 



77ie Polyantha Remontant Bose {Rosa Poly- 

 antha) was brought from Japan about the year 

 1865, by Robert Fortune, and is distinguished 

 from all other classes by its panicled blooms. 

 This peculiarity is not generally retained, how- 

 ever, when crossed with other roses, at least not 

 in most of the varieties which have been sent out 

 as seedlings from it. M. Jean Sisley, the eminent 

 horticulturist of Lyons, says of this class : ^' It 

 appears not to have crossed any of the other tjpes 

 with its own pollen. In a bed I made two years 

 ago, with the seed in question (without practis- 



