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Perpetual Pink. — Synonyme. Perpetual Michigan. Flow- 

 ers, medium size, rosy purple changing to rose, cupped and 

 very double, resembling in shape the multiflora. Clusters, 

 large, containing from ten to twenty blooms ; foliage, nearly 

 smooth, very dark green; spines, rather strong and thick, 

 forming quite a pubescence on the peduncles of the flowers ; 

 growth, vigorous. How far this will prove a perpetual 

 bloomer remains to be tried ; we saw it flowering a second 

 time in Mr. Feast's garden, in Oct. 1843, though its habit 

 of continual blooming may be quite uncertain. 



Siiperba. — Flowers, pale rose or pink, large, cup-shaped 

 and very double, much resembling in general appearance the 

 multiflora; foliage, large narrow, pale yellowish green, hav- 

 ing a rugose appearance. Spines, rather strong, not crov/d- 

 ed, habit vigorous : clusters of flowers from ten to tAventy. 



Mada7ne Caradori Allen. — Flowers, bright pink and semi- 

 double, in every other respect similar to the Queen, having 

 the same large and vigorous foliage, and habit of growth. 

 Mr. Feast states that he did not think this variety worth 

 preserving, after he had raised the Queen, until the last sea- 

 son, when its free flowering and other qualities made it a 

 desirable variety. 



From these descriptions amateurs will probably be able 

 to distinguish the varieties, and should they have purchas- 

 ed them under other names, they can rectify the mistakes. 

 It is desirable that the few varieties which have already 

 been raised should be cultivated under their true names, as 

 there is little doubt but that many additional kinds will be 

 raised in the course of a few years. Mr. Feast's seedlings 

 are all truly splendid varieties, and without making any 

 exceptions, the greatest additions which have ever been 

 made to this tribe of plants for our climate. To their har- 

 dy, vigorous and running habit there is united all the 

 good qualities of our finest roses. — Some possessing the 

 grace of the multiflora, while others have the brilliancy of 

 the Provins. 



Mr. Buist, in his Rose Mannol^ states that he has sever- 

 al hundred seedling roses, raised from the rubifolia elegans, 

 or Chillicothe multiflora, as it is called in Ohio, a semi-dou- 

 ble variety, hybridized with the perpetual and Chinese ; and 

 though none of them have bloomed, unless during the last 

 month, they exhibit in their growth "great diversity of cha- 

 racter." Repeated experiments will undoubtedly give re- 



