CHARACTERISTICS OF A FINE ROSE. 



Properties of Roses for Stands, showing the Single Bloom. 

 like Dahlias. 



1. The petals should be thick, broad, and smooth at the edges. 



2. The flower should be highly perfumed, or, as the dealers call it( 

 fragrant. 



3. The flower should be double U the centre, high on the crown, 

 rcund in the outline, and regular in the disposition of the petals. 



4. The petals should be imbricated, and in distinct rows, whether 

 they be reflexed, like some of the velvety Tuscan kind, or cupped like 

 a ranunculus ; and the petals to the centre should continue the same 

 farm, and only be reduced in size. 



5. The color should be distinct and new, and stand fast against the 

 sun and air, till the bloom fail. 



6. The stem should be strong, the footstalk stiff and elastic ; the 

 blooms well out beyond the foliage, and not in each other's way. 



The very worst habit a Rose can have, is that of throwing up sev- 

 eral blooms close together, on short stiff footstalks, some of which 

 must be cut away before the others can be fully developed ; as show 

 flowers, they are bad, and as plants, they are very untidy. The side 

 buds prevent the centre flowers from opening circularly, and when 

 the first beauty is off, they exhibit dead roses held fast between two 

 living ones. 



Properties of Noisette Roses. 



However singularly some catalogues class these varieties, we intend, 

 by this name, to distinguish those roses which bloom in clusters. 



1. The petals should be thick, broad, and smooth at the edges. 



2. The flower should be highly perfumed, or, as the dealers call it, 

 fragrant. 



3. The flower should be double to the centre, high on the crown, 

 round in the outline, and regular in the disposition of the petals. 



4. The cluster should be sufficiently open to enable all the flowers 

 to bloom freely, and the stems and footstalks should be firm and 

 elastic, to hold the flower face upward, or face outward, and not 

 hang down, and show the outside, instead of the inside of the blooma 



5. The bloom should be abundant at the end of every shoot. 



