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variety, with large and handsome foliage, and would 

 make a good pillar rose. Its regularly formed flowers, 

 of a bright pink or rose, are produced in clusters, and 

 open w^ell. It does not bear close pruning. This is one 

 of the most desirable of its class, and owes its origin to 

 Laffay. 



Princess Royal. — A very robust rose, almost equal to 

 the preceding in vigor. Its young leaves and branches 

 have a red tinge, and its cupped flowers are of a deep 

 crimson purple, marbled and spotted with red. Although 

 not quite double when fully open, they are very beautiful 

 when in bud. A moss rose, however double, is peculiar 

 only in bud, for, when fully expanded, the mossy calyx 

 must inevitably be hidden. 



Perpetual White. — This was described among the Re- 

 montant Mosses, as also were 



Raphael, and 

 Salet. 



William Lohh. — A good growing plant, with double 

 flowers. Its color is carmine, shaded with violet. 



Like all other roses, and even in a greater degree, the 

 Moss Rose requires a light and very rich soil, with a dry 

 bottom. Many of them make very beautiful beds and 

 patches, w^hen planted in rich soil, and kept well pegged 

 down. A good supply of stable manure should be given 

 them in the autumn, to be washed down about their roots 

 by the winter rains. They do not generally require or 

 bear so much pruning as other roses, but their bloom 

 may sometimes be prolonged by shortening part of the 

 shoots close, and only the tips of the remainder. When 

 properly cultivated, few objects can be more beautiful 

 than these roses, either singly or in masses. Without 

 making so brilliant a show as some other classes, the moss 

 which envelops them imparts a touch of graceful beauty 

 belonging to no other flower. 



