260 GARDEN CLASSIFICATION. 



PRINCESSE ADELAIDE, T., is a highly improved variety of 

 the old Yellow Tea Rose, and of deeper color. Its flowers are 

 cupped, large, and very double. 



PRINCESSE MARIE. T., is one of the finest tea-scented roses. 

 Its flowers are very large, often more than four inches in diame- 

 ter, and of a dark flesh-color. 



RETOUR DU PRINTEMPS is a very pretty miniature rose, for- 

 merly classed as Rosa Laiorenceana. It is quite distinct, with 

 bright rose-colored and cupped flowers, surrounded by a curious 

 calyx. The plant is as luxuriant as any of its congeners, and 

 the leaves are deeply tinged with red. 



SAFRANO, T., is scarcely excelled by any rose. Its half- 

 opened bud is very beautiful, and of a rich deep fawn color. 

 When open, its form is cupped, and its color a much lighter 

 fawn. These fawn-colored roses have peculiar charms for us; 

 and of them all, there are none more beautiful or richer than 

 Safrano. 



SILENE, T., is a very beautiful tea-scented rose, cupped, very 

 double, and fragrant. Its color is rose, shaded with crimson, and 

 the plant is hardy and of luxuriant growth. 



SMITHII, N., although an old rose, is one of the very finest we 

 possess. Its form is large and globular, and, when full-blown, is 

 of a rich straw color, with yellow centre. Its half-expanded buds 

 are beautifully formed, and of a rich yellow. It blooms in clus- 

 ters, opens freely, and is a very luxuriant grower. 



SOLFATERRE, N., is another superb rose, of very much the 

 same character. Its flowers are large and globular, inclining to 

 flat, and their color bright lemon. When half opened, the buds 

 are superb. Like Chromatella (and Lamarque, the parent, of 

 both), its growth is very luxuriant. Rivers mentions a plant 

 which threw out a shoot from a single bud eighteen feet in 

 one season, and the next season was covered with flower- 

 buds. 



SOUVENIR D'UN AMI, T., is a new tea-scented rose, purchased 

 in France for 15 francs ; and with none of the high-priced roses 

 have we been so well pleased as with this. It is indeed the 



