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we should not make use of these in the present, and hope 

 for a greater variety in the future. If raisers of seedling 

 Roses had selected for freedom and perpetuity of flowering, 

 as well as for size and symmetry in the individual blooms, 

 we feel assured that we might ere now have been in pos- 

 session of Roses of every hue, masses of which would vie 

 in brilliancy and effect with the most gorgeous denizens of 

 the garden. Fortunately in the olden times, before the 

 florists' canons had obliterated all other considerations, 

 these qualities were estimated at their true worth, and we 

 have them in great perfection in the first twelve varieties 

 quoted. What we want further is the same qualities of 

 freedom and constancy of flowering, in every shade of 

 colour, that those who plant their gardens chiefly for 

 effect may have their Rosarium as well as those who 

 plant for the beauty of the individual flowers. We should 

 rejoice to find that some of our raisers of seedlings had 

 taken the matter up from this point of view, for we should 

 anticipate important results from powers judiciously em- 

 ployed. 



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THOUGHTS ON EOSES. 



{From " The Florist," i868,/. 193.] 



HE spring and summer of 1868 will doubtless be 

 long remembered by English horticulturists, and 

 be often referred to in the future. Little or no rain fell 

 from February to August. Cloudless days and cloudy 

 nights were the usual order of things, so that even the 

 refreshing dews, so customary and so beneficial to vege- 

 tation in our climate, were almost denied us. Newly 

 transplanted Roses have in some places suffered much, 

 especially where the plants had been removed from a 



