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Rivera "at first thought a Hybrid China," and says, "will, Rerhaps, 

 be better grouped with the Damask Roses." 



Scotch Roses- 

 So long as this family was allowed to be kept select, these-rosea 

 were very distinct ; they make long briery shoots, and flower with 

 small blooms almost like briers, the whole length of stems. They are 

 exceedingly pretty, formed as a bank, or in clumps. They are not 

 adapted for standards. They bloom early, and the Scotch nurserymen 

 now boast of two or three hundred varieties; but Kke all the other 

 families, there are many among them that have been raised from seed, 

 and others imported, which are neither by name nor nature Scotch. 

 Amiable etrang^re is a French hybrid. Adelaide is a large Red Double 

 Rose. La Cenomane is a French hybrid with large flowers, " not so 



robust as the pure Scotch varieties." 



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The S-weet Brier. 



This lovely ornament, or rather tenant of the garden, is universally 

 admired for the delicious fragrance of its foliage, and for nothing else. 

 It is only necessary to say here, that others whose leaves are not fra- 

 grant have been placed with it to make a family ; some of the new 

 members having but little fragrance, and one, the Scarlet Sweet Brier, 

 none at all. 



The Austrian Brier. 



Here we have the same evidence of indecision as to where things 

 ought to be placed. In this scentless family we have WiUiams' Double 

 Yellow Sweet Brier. In fact, the Sweet Brier and the Austrian Brier 

 are muddled together so completely that catalogues do not agree, and 

 the further we go, the more confusion we get into, and more instances 

 occur of removal from one division to another. 



The Double Tello'w Rosa. 



Here we have only two individuals, the old Double Golden Yellow, 

 so beautiful and double as to be universally admired, and the Jaune, 

 a dwarf kind, both shy bloomers under ordinary management, or, 



