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variety for covering unsightly places, as it blooms admirably 

 lying on the ground. 



To these may be added, Perpetual, Michigan, Elegans, 

 Superba, and others, which are all pretty varieties. 



The Sweet Brier, (Rosa Rubiginosa,) or the English 

 Eglantine, is a well known, hardy variety, of which there 

 are now several varieties, although with most of them the 

 fragrance of the foliage is the most recommendable quality 

 for their culture. The plants are often used to a good pur- 

 pose for making ornamental live fences for the flower garden. 

 There are, however, two or three pretty, double varieties, 

 which are well adapted to the shrubbery, as the double 

 white and double red Sweet Brier, and their intermediate 

 varieties. 



To these may be added the Scotch Rose and Yellow 

 Austrian, which are found in most gardens, and are divided 

 at the root. The varieties are pretty early flowering kinds, 

 and are generally admired for their buds. One of the pret- 

 tiest of this class is the Harrisonia or Hogg's Yellow Har- 

 rison, which is a beautiful double flowering variety. 



The GARDEN ROSE, or June Flowering Rose, is the old 

 inhabitant of the English flower garden, and recognized 

 under several different varieties, as the Red Moss, which is 

 the type of the Moss Rose, which is now classed under the 

 head of 



The Rosa Cenlifolia, var. Rosa Muscosa> or Moss Rose, 

 which is mentioned by Miller so early as the year 1727, and 

 is at this very time one of the best roses of the flower gar- 

 den, and in bud has no competitor among all the varieties 

 known at the present lime. From this has emanated many 

 varieties, which will be described in the Descriptive list, but 

 none to excel the primitive when in bud. To this may be 

 added 



The Rosa Centifolia, or the Provins, or Cabbage Rose, 

 an old inhabitant of the English flower garden, but although 

 it is called an English Rose, it is undoubtedly a native of 



