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lax fringe, very artificial yet tasty in its appearance. It 

 looks as if some short, stiff, bright green seaweed had 

 tat en root outside the bud. Of course this supplemental 

 ornament is lost to sight when the Rose is fully expanded. 

 The above extremely pleasing varieties warn us how care- 

 ful we ought to be in rejecting plants growing in old 

 gardens, before we have seen with our own eyes what 

 they actually are. The Crested is said to have been dis- 

 covered growing from the crevice of a wall in Friburg, 

 Switzerland : and the Unique was found by Mr. Grim- 

 wood, then of the Kensington Nurseiy, in the garden of 

 Mr. Richmond, a baker, living near Needham Market, 

 Suffolk. Mr. Grimwood asked for a branch, but obtained 

 the entire plant, which was willingly given him. It 

 ought to be added, that the following year Mr. Grim- 

 wood, to his credit, made Mr. Richmond a present of a 

 handsome silver cup, on which was engraved a figure of 

 the rose. Two exquisite and delicate varieties, the Rath 

 White Moss and the Pompon Moss, owe their discovery 

 and preservation to persons who knew how to make use 

 of their eyes, and had profitably studied " The Art of 

 Seeing." There can be little doubt that many beautiful 

 unknown flowers are trampled under-foot and destroyed, 

 without an opportunity of displaying their merits, simply 

 because some careless landlord, gardener, or in-coming 

 tenant, happened first to behold them when they were 

 not in bloom, or in leaf. 



The Cabbage Rose has produced dwarf varieties ; how 3 

 or where, we do not know. The Rose de Meaux and its 

 still more diminutive sister the Pompon (Little Trinket) 

 Rose, are miniatures of the Cabbage Provence, with the 

 advantage that they bloom earlier, and so make elegant 

 pot-plants for forcing. Sponges Rose is intermediate in 

 size and stature between the Rose de Meaux and the 

 Cabbage, but most resembles the former ; it is cupped, 

 with a full pink centre, the outer petals being lighter, 

 and makes a beautiful little standard, budded low. The 

 Dwarf Rur gundy is another member of the same family, 

 with cupped, deep-red double flowers, but a much less 



