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charming hybrid; La Seduisante is a fine flower. Hy- 

 brids from the "White have produced several mottled 

 roses ; amongst which are Madame Campari, Fffie Deans, 

 and Marie de Bowrgogne. The Old "White and the 

 Maiden's Blush furnish excellent stocks to bud on. 



TJie French Base — R. Gallica — a highly-scented species, 

 of robust growth and thrifty habit, in any tolerable soil ; 

 is largely grown in the environs of Provins, in France^ 

 to make conserve ; it is thence sometimes called the 

 Rose de Provins, which has caused a confusion with 

 Provence roses. A well-known type is the medical rose, 

 grown for the apothecaries to dry and make decoction of 

 roses with, and for the preparation of rose-water by 

 distillers. Another wide-spread variety is the coarse, 

 semi-double, striped rose, which ought to be called Rosa- 

 mond, or Rosa mundi, the World's Rose, though it is 

 often wrongly styled the Yor/c and Lancaster. French 

 roses will often succeed in towns. From them have 

 been raised several beautiful striped and spotted varie- 

 ties ; as the Village JIaid, Carnation, Abbesse, Due 

 d'' Orleans Ronctuee, Harlequin, and others. The spots 

 are less to be depended on than the stripes. Many of 

 the French, roses are admirable as exhibition flowers ; 

 take as instances, Enchantress, light pink ; D'Aguesseau, 

 bright crimson, very large and full ; Roula de Isanteuil, 

 dark crimson : Kean, crimson-scarlet shading into purple ; 

 Grandissima, rosy crimson: Rriseis, brilliant rose; 

 Corate Lacepede, rosy lilac ; Gueriris Gift, vivid rose ; 

 Madame Dubarry, crimson- scarlet ; (Eillet Fiamand. 

 distinctly striped with pink and rosy lilac ; Ramela, 

 large, rose, and very double ; Tricolor, striped crimson 

 and purple, of which there are several successive im- 

 provements ; Tuscany, dark velvety-crimson ; and scores 

 of others. The petals of the French roses are the best 

 for making pot-pourri. In pruning, thin out the heads 

 well, and shorten the shoots moderately. The nursery- 

 men's catalogues of French roses are immense; but, as 

 Mr. Rivers observes, " it is perfectly useless, in the 

 present advanced state of rose-culture, to burden these 



