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tained, a much more extensive list of good flowers may 

 probably ere long be formed. The exertions of Mr. Austin 

 of Glasgow, and of Mr. Lee of Hammersmith, which I 

 have before mentioned, have even already produced some 

 which, when they shall have been examined, and distin- 

 guished by appropriate names, will well deserve places in 

 any collection. The greatest improvements which I expect 

 to arise, exclusive of the enlargement of the size of the flowers, 

 will be in the darker colours, and in those of a pure rose 

 colour, which will form a section intermediate between the 

 Blushes and the Reds. In the raising of new plants from 

 seed, with a view to the attainment of new varieties, it is 

 probable that the greater number obtained will resemble 

 those above enumerated, and that by far the greater propor- 

 tion will bear blush flowers. 



The account of the Double Scotch Roses would here ter- 

 minate if confined to those which are strictly referable to the 

 species ; but as there is another Double Rose, which has been 

 long known in the nurseries under the name of The Tall Double 

 Scotch Rose, it might seem an omission if I were to leave it 

 unnoticed. The plant appeared in the Hammersmith nur- 

 sery many years since, having been obtained from the 

 garden of the late Dr. Pitcairn, beyond which I cannot 

 trace its history. This is the Double Scotch Rose to which 

 I have alluded, as being inserted in the second edition of 

 the Hortus Kewensis ; it is the R. spinosmima S of that work, 

 and is figured by Miss Lawrence, in her work on Roses* 

 The representation there given is tolerably correct, but the 



* Lawrence's Roses, pi. 63. 



