264 THE FLORIST AND 



To the lover and amateur I can only quote a few as deserving 

 notice. 



Agrippina, or Cramoisi Superiere — -is the first and the best of bright 

 crimson daily roses, profuse, brilliant and beautifully perfect. ' 



Cels, or Cels' multiflora — blush, with dark pink centre, double, pro- 

 fuse and indispensable. 



Gros Charles, Arch-Duke Charles, Isadore and Triumphant are all 

 nearly alike, changeable, rosy lilac to crimson, of strong growth. 



Louis Philippe — -crimson, with paler centre, of strong growth and 

 profusion of bloom ; one half of the red roses sold in Philadelphia 

 market as Agrippina are this variety, it is much better adapted for" 

 forcing than the latter variety. 



Lady War render — when you can find it, is the 1 best white, unless' 

 some of the recently introduced sorts excel it, in that are highly 

 favored by cliscriptions; but you my' dear sir, and your readers, as : 

 well as myself delight in a clear proof. 



Madam Br con — large bright pink. < 



Queen oj Lombardy — a fine rosy red. 



King of the Crimsons, of Eugene Beauharnois — dark crimson, and a 

 little fragrant. 



Viridescens — green flowers ; a curiosity. 



These form the leading and fine sorts of the Bengal Roses, they 

 are all sufficiently hardy to stand out in winter, in any dry soil south 

 of Philadelphia. 



Perpetual Roses, were first brought to our notice about 1831, 

 by a publication of Hibbert and Buist, then Florists in Philadelphia, 

 a perpetual crimson fragrant rose, was then the height of my ambi- 

 tion; a friend of mine now a druggist in your city, who was always 

 ahead in those matters, posted three miles out of town and bought 

 the great prize, but it turned out to be a Sanguinea in place of Lee's 

 Crimson Perpetual or Rose du Roi, now so well known and so gen- 

 erally cultivated ; to me it is the only one of the group that de- 

 serves notice; the type of this variety is the monthly Damask and I 

 have not the least doubt that from these has originated the Hybrid 

 Perpetual Roses. 



