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PERPETUAL ROSES. 



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Violet de Belgique, dark violet crimson^ very profuse and 

 perfect. 



Watts' Celestial, Celestial Wells^ Cahbage Cliina^ Flora 

 perfecta, &c. (it is known under all these names), 

 delicate rose, petals finely cupped, flower rather flat, 

 is a<,free grower, and very profuse of bloom. 



Wellington (Lee's), rich purple crimson, flovv^er beautifully 

 formed ; globular and very double. The first view 

 of it is similar to Bizzare de la Chine; but it is very 

 distinct in growth, and the color fades much sooner 

 than in the latter rose, and, indeed, is never so bright. 



William the Fourth, blush red, extremely large, very perfect 

 form, and is unquestionably a hybrid from the Cab- 

 bage Provins, and makes an excellent standard or 

 tea rose. 



HYBRID ROSES THAT ARE STRIPED, SPOTTED, OR 

 MARBLED. 



Abbe Berlese, beautiful crimson, spotted with violet, and of 

 the most perfect form. 



Camaieu, delicate rose, with lilac stripes, large and double. 



Prince de Chimay, entirely new, crimson purple, beautifully 

 marbled with rose, large, and very perfect. 



Sandeur, Sandeur Fanacheej of the French^ and King of 

 Hybrids of the English, bright rose color, beauti- 

 fully spotted and striped with white, very double, 

 and of perfect form — luxuriant in growth, and the 

 shoots must never be shortened — we have seen it 

 several years in perfect bloom. 



PERPETUAL ROSES. 



This once admired division of the Eose is now nearly su- 

 perseded by the Hybrid Perpetual, a tribe that originated 

 between it and the Bourbon. It was not known in Europe 

 till about 1817, except in the red and white four seasons, 

 roses, which have, no doubt, contributed a large portion of 

 their Sweet assistance/^ for in many of them the power- 

 ful and agreeable fragrance of these two old roses is very 

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