March.] roses. 51 
Moss crimson or Damask, very bright rose, expanded and 
double, and very mossy. 
( This is not properly a moss rose, 
crested, moss or but has a curiously mossy calyx 
crested Provins, 1 ■ that envelopes the bud — pink, 
[ globular, and double. 
Luxemburg, bright red, compact and double. 
panache, frequently striped. 
perpetual red. 
white, blooming in clusters. 
unique de Provence, white. 
Negritina, pink, very compact, imbricated and double. 
Nonpareil, rosy red, compact and perfectly double. 
Oillet parfait, striped like a carnation. 
Perlet des panaches, striped rose and white. 
red, see red Provins. 
white, see white Provins. 
Prince de Joinville, bright rose, large, expanded and finely 
double. 
Prolific blu.-h, changeable blush, expanded and double. 
Provins cabbage, see Cabbage Provins. 
Queen of violets, violet colour, compact, cupped and very 
double. 
of Roses, beautiful rosy purple, imbricated and double. 
Caroline, fine changeable red, cupped and double. 
Sweetbrier, single pink. 
■ celestial, blush, fine double flowered. 
Swiss Rose, large pink, expanded, and profusely double. 
Unique or white Provins, pure white, very large globular, 
and double, superb. 
Unique striped, often is perfectly white, and merely a sport 
from the former. 
Vandal carmine, compact, imbricated, and double. 
Village Maid, or Belle Rubine, striped. 
Violatum, violet purple, expanded and double. 
Yellow Persian, the finest yellow rose grown. 
"We mention these as fine; but, among several thousand 
cultivated varieties of the garden rose, there must be many 
of equal, if not surpassing beauty; of Rosa spinosissima, 
there are about five hundred varieties; Rosa gallica, two 
hundred; R. centifolia, one hundred and fifty; R. damas- 
