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ON THE FORMATION OF A ROSARY. 
Arietina is a good flower, native of the Levant ; flowers about May and June. 
Cretka is a native of Crete, its flowers are white and blush. 
Decora produces deep crimson flowers about May or June. 
Var, Pallasii is a native of the Crimea, a tolerably good flower. 
Officinalis produces red or crimson flowers. 
Festiva is a flower of considerable merit. 
Var. carnescens is a variety of Festiva, its flowers are very double, and of a 
deep rose colour. 
Var. rosea produces flowers of a deep rose colour. 
Var. rubra has very double dark purple flowers. This is the variety most 
common in gardens. 
Var. Sahini produces very dark purple flowers in May or June. 
Paradoxa, var.fimhriata has very double flowers, and has been called the double- 
fringed poeony. 
Var, simpliciflora is a flower of eight petals, of little interest. 
Peregrina, var, compacta is a tolerably good flower, but possesses nothing very 
attractive. 
Pubens. Flowers large, of a dark purple colour, with yellow anthers. 
Villosa produces white flowers from May to July. 
Mollis is a small flower of a dull purplish red. 
Humilis has flowers of a purplish blood colour, the petals a little jagged ; it 
flower* about May or June. 
Tenuifolia produces fine dark red flowers, nestled as it were among the finely 
divided leaves. 
Paxteri is a good flower, rather scarce in collections ; as is also the splendens^ 
but may be obtained of the Messrs. Loddiges at the Hackney Nursery. 
REMARKS ON THE FORMATION OF A ROSARY 
FOR SCOTCH ROSES, 
In Volume I. from pages 138 to 146, and Volume II. at pages 33, 41, 209, 
and 214, will be found a series of remarks, embracing the culture, propagation, and 
general treatment of the genus Rose. The remarks above alluded to are, in all 
respects, calculated to assist in the management of this interesting family, whether 
on an extensive or a limited scale. The true species of this genus have, by the as- 
siduously applied skill of cultivators, given birth to a numberless variety of hybrids, 
many of which surprisingly surpass the original stock, for richness of colour and dispo- 
sition of the flower ; and from this quality, hold a prominent rank in the estimation of 
every admirer of this delightful family. These varieties are again improved, by a dis- 
tinct operation to that of multiplying varieties from seed gathered from flowers, which 
had been previously impregnated, by introducing to the stigma the pollen from the 
stamens of other flowers ; this is eff'ected by uniting a branch or scion deemed fit 
for the operation, to the trunk or stem of another, for the purpose of causing the 
introduced branch to grow more freely, and thus produce a greater number of 
