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flowers in abundance, most lovely, like American 

 girls, in the bud, but long retaining the charms of 

 their premilre jeunesse before they arrive at rose- 

 hood. When the soil is heavy, the Moss- Rose will 

 grow upon the Brier ; and I have had beautiful 

 standards of Baron de Wassenaer, a pretty cupped 

 Rose, but wanting in substance ; of Comtesse de 

 Murinais, a very robust Rose as to wood, but by 

 no means so generous of its white petals; of the 

 charming Cristata or Crested, a most distinct and 

 attractive Rose, first found, it is said, on the walls 

 of a convent near Fribourg or Berne, which all 

 Rosarians should grow, having buds thickly fringed 

 with moss, and these changing in due season to 

 large and well-shaped flowers of a clear pink colour ; 

 of Gloire des Mousseuses, the largest member of 

 the family, and one of the most beautiful pale 

 Roses ; of Laneii, for which, on its introduction 

 by Mons. Laffay in 1846, I gave half-a-guinea, 

 and which repaid me well with some of the best 

 Moss-Roses I have grown, of a brilliant colour 

 (bright rose), of a symmetrical shape, and of fine 

 foliage, free from blight and mildew, those cruel 

 foes of the Rose in general and the Moss-Rose 

 in particular; of Luxembourg, one of the darker 

 varieties, more remarkable for vigour than virtue ; 

 of Marie de Blois, a Rose of luxuriant growth, large 



