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SPECIES AKD VARIETIES. 



ness is the mere work of a fertile imagination. When any one haa 

 got Rosa berberifoUa, he need not trouble himself about whether ha 

 has it from the seed raised by Mons. Hardy, or the seed raised by hia 

 predecessors. There is no more variation, and no more hybrid about 

 either, than there is in two plants of small salad. 



Koea Micropliylla. 



This, we are told, is nearly aUied to the Macartney Rose ; so are 

 the varieties of it, and ought not to have been separated. 



QuaiEN (Ro3A bourlDoniana). 



