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plants rather than from cut flowers. Acting on these 

 views, I lately, when visiting the Rose gardens in France, 

 made notes of the best garden Roses, and these I have 

 corrected by comparison with the collection growing here 

 under my own eye. 



First, I would observe that the Amateur who wishes 

 for a fine display of Roses in June and July will lose 

 much if he excludes from his list certain varieties of 

 Summer Roses. Among the Moss Roses there are : 

 Comtesse de Murinais (white), Gloire des Mousseuses 

 (blush), Marie de Blois (lilac), the old-fashioned Moss 

 and the Crested Moss (pink), Baron de Wassenaer (red), 

 and Captain Ingram and Purpurea rubra (purple), all 

 free, hardy, profuse, and beautiful. Of Damask Roses, 

 Madame Hardy and Madame Soetmans are still un- 

 surpassed as white flowers, although rarely met with at 

 the exhibitions. The varieties Felicite and La Se"duisante 

 compel us to retain the group Alba ; these are improved 

 varieties of the Maiden's Blush, and although there are 

 now Hybrid Perpetuals of similar character, they are so 

 delicate as to be short-lived and scarcely manageable. 

 Neither are the old French Roses to be hastily ignored, 

 for in CEillet Parfait and Perle des Panaches we have 

 the two best striped Roses (white, striped with crimson and 

 rose) that have yet appeared. Again, where effect is 

 valued, where masses of bloom are desired, there are 

 none comparable to the old Hybrid Chinas Charles 

 Lawson, Chen^dole, Coupe d'Heb^, Juno, Madame Plan- 

 tier, Paul Perras, and Paul Ricaut. Nor must we forget 

 to include Harrisonii (Austrian), a plant of matchless 

 beauty when covered with its golden globes in May and 

 June. Yet how few of these ever put in an appearance 

 at the Rose shows ! If our new Hybrid Perpetuals pro- 

 duced the masses of bloom in summer which the above- 

 mentioned kinds do, and continued to bloom constantly 

 throughout the autumn, it would be well to take them in 

 preference. But this is not the fact. Cultivators know 



