40 THE ROSE. 



Baronne de Maynard, Madame Alfred de Rouge- 

 mont, and Madame Frangois Pittet are worthy 

 a place in collections of considerable extent. 



The Hybrid Perjpetual, or Hybrid Remontant 

 Hose (Hosa Damascena Hybrida), is by far the 

 most valuable, if not the most beautiful, of all 

 groups of roses. The first varieties sent out 

 were mostly from crosses of Bourbons upon 

 Damask Perpetuals and Hybrid Chinas ; after- 

 wards crosses were made with varieties of Prov- 

 ence, Damask, and French Roses upon Bour- 

 bons, Bengals, and Teas, and vice versa. The 

 progeny of these was then recrossed with differ- 

 ent classes, and so it is we have a group of the 

 most heterogeneous character, combining the 

 good and bad qualities, in greater or less degree, 

 of nearly all the others. There are certain types 

 in this group which gather together many varie- 

 ties, in which the relationship to some one sort 

 is readily discerned, as the Jules Margottin type. 

 General Jacqueminot and its progeny, and the 

 La Reine family ; but there is a vast number of 

 sorts whose kinship cannot be traced ; this is ow- 

 ing to the fact that the greater number of varie- 

 ties have been raised from mixed seed, where no 



