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large and white; Lamarque, pale straw-colour; Cloth of 

 Gold, or Chromatella, creamy white with yellow centre ; 

 Sir Walter Scott, rosy lilac ; Solfaterre, creamy white, 

 with a bright sulphur centre ; besides others, as Octavie, 

 Ophirie, Cerise, and Ticomtesse cVAvesne. Many of the 

 latest-flowering X oisettes are loose in their blooms, which 

 is a merit in them, as they open with less difficulty. In- 

 experienced gardeners are apt to prune their Xoisettes, 

 and other vigorous-growing roses, too freely ; if cut back 

 too severely, they will produce -foliage instead of flowers, 

 year after year. Instances of the effects of such ill- 

 treatment may be seen in the suburban villas that sur- 

 round large cities, where people get ignorant jobbing 

 gardeners to prune their roses by the year, the result 

 being a collection of verdant standards with flowers to be 

 hoped for when the good time comes. 



Those invaluable roses the Common Pink Cliina, or 

 Monthly JRose, JR. Indica, and the Crimson China, JR. 

 semperflorens, whose flowers grace the cottage-garden 

 nearly all the year round, have given birth to numerous 

 beautiful offspring, which are more adapted for pot-plants, 

 or for bedding, than as standards. Many of them, though 

 hardy at root, are cut down to the ground by severe frost, 

 or if not so cut down, require close pruning. Against a 

 wall they will often cover a considerable area. Alba, 

 white, double ; Cramoisie JEblouissante, vivid crimson ; 

 Fabrier, crimson scarlet ; Belle JEmelie, blush ; Madame 

 Br eon, rich rose ; Mrs. Bosanquet, blush ; Eugene Beau- 

 harnais, rosy purple ; Clara Syhain and Madame Bureau, 

 white; Carmin Superbe, or a? Yebles, raised by M. Desprez, 

 deep carmine ; and Prince Charles, brilliant crimson, will 

 constitute a good and select collection. 



The Blush was the first Tea-scented China JRose — JR. 

 Indica odor at a — introduced to this country, followed by 

 the Yellow China. They are good ; and we now have 

 others of great excellence. All are more fitted for pots 

 and greenhouses than for out-door culture; they are 

 grateful for light rich soil, good drainage, warmth accom- 

 panied by moisture, an atmosphere not liable to extremes 



