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Rosacea Rosa. 



trary classifications adopted by horticulturists have no scientific 

 value, and we might add that in a gardening point of view 

 they are of very slender utility. The catalogues are filled with 

 names 'of varieties, many of which it is utterly impossible to 

 distinguish. It would be a great service to amateurs if these 

 catalogues were scrupulously purged, and thenceforward none 

 but varieties of real merit admitted. In this way many of the 

 older varieties, almost abandoned at the present time, would 

 reassert their claims to be placed in the first rank, and this fact 

 induces us to enumerate a few here which already date back 

 many years. 



Amongst the common Centifolias or Provence Roses we have 

 the Painters' Hose (fig. 83), very large, very double and rose- 

 coloured ; the common Cabbage Rose, very large, double, rosy- 

 pink; the Celery-leaved Rose, medium size, full, and rose- 



Fig. 83. Painters' Kose. ( nat. size.) 



Fig. 84. Dwarf Pompon, (i nat. size.) 



coloured ; Trioinphe d? Abbeville, very large, double, bright 

 rose ; Vilmorin, large, full, flesh-coloured ; Kingston, very 

 small, full, rose ; Unique blanche, medium size, full, and 

 white. 



Miniature Provence or Pompon Eoses : Saint Francois or 

 Dwarf Pompon (fig. 84), very small, full, and rose-coloured ; 

 the White Pompon or Pompon blanc, very small, full and 



