SPECIES AND VARIETIES. 21 



Bankaian Roses. 



The White and Yellow Banksian Eoses are very beautiful plants, 

 with smaE foliage and flowers, very graceful, and distinct as any 

 in cultivation ; yet we have a rose-colored hybrid introduced with 

 them ; a plant acknowledged to partake " as much of the character 

 of the Boursault Rose, as of the Banksian." 



Hybrid Climbing Rosea. 



These, one would think, are neither Climbing nor Dwarf, but be- 

 tween both. Not so, however ; because Rosa craculum makes shoots 

 from ten to fifteen feet in a season. Madame d'Arblay, or Well's 

 White, has been formerly placed among the Evergreen Roses ; but 

 whether she misbehaved herself there, or was a great favorite here, is 

 of no consequence. She was removed from that family to this. We 

 are, however, informed, with regard to her sojourn among the family 

 of Evergreens, and subsequent removal, that her "habit is so different 

 and her origin so well ascertained, that Mr. Rivers removed her to the 

 present family." 



Perpetual Roses. 



These, if the rose gentlemen would stick to the character, would 

 be very easily defined — ^i-oses which have a complete season of bloom ; 

 which go off but a short time ; make a fresh season of bloom, and so 

 on. Not like the China Roses, always " growing and blooming," but 

 fairly making different seasons of bloom, as complete as if a winter 

 intervened. 



The Bourbon Rose. 



The original Bourbon Rose was a hybrid between the Common 

 China and the Red Pour Seasons. Of course, this was quite enough 

 reason for rose growers to add to the family all that were something 

 like it, and others that were nothing like it. Here let Mr. Rivers 

 speak: "Diaphane is a small high-colored Rose, almost scarlet. This 

 is not a true Bov-rbon." The fact is, there is nothing like the Bourbon 

 Rose about it. Here we have also Gloire de Rosamlne, unlike the 

 Bourbon Rose in everything. It is a robust Climbing Rose, of which 



