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is resorted to for extensive propagation with this class. 
Some of the varieties, when grown upon their own roots, 
do not do justice to themselves; but when worked on 
strong-growing stocks, grow much more luxuriantly, and 
give more perfect flowers. Mr. Parsons has described 
two hundred varieties of Roses from the various classes 
of those sorts he thinks most desirable for the amateur tq 
select from. There are but few persons who will be dis, 
posed to cultivate that number. His selection is a very 
choice one, and I should hardly know myself which to re- 
ject. Fifty varieties, well chosen from the various classes, 
are aS many as most persons, unless they have money 
enough and to spare, would be likely to cultivate; and 
the great majority would probably be happy to possess 
half that number. 
Ewerblooming Roses.—'These Roses are distinguished 
from the Remontant, by blooming continually through the 
season, without any temporary cessation. They include 
the Bourbon, the Bengal and its sub-varieties, the Tea 
and Noisette, the Musk, the Macartney, and the Micro- 
phylla Roses.” 
The Everblooming Roses are very desirable, wherever 
the climate renders it possible to preserve them through 
the winter. As far north as Boston, the greater part of 
them can only be cultivated to perfection in the green- 
house, but further south, they endure the winter, even, 
without protection. 
Bourbon Roses.— This section of the Everblooming 
Roses has not succeeded in my own grounds. Mr. Par- 
sons says they are perfectly hardy with him, (Long 
Island,) which is much warmer than in this State. He 
says, in speaking of it as having superior qualities to the 
Tea-scented Rose, “These qualities are, its perfect hard- 
iness, its very thick, leathery foliage, its luxuriant growth, 
its constant bloom, and its thick, velvety petals of a con- 
