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THE KOSE GARDEN. 
flowers being very insignificant, the beauty and singularity consisting in the trap formed of the 
sensitive lobes of the leaves. 
The Dionaja is increased by divisions, at the time of potting ; the plants may then be parted when 
there is more than one crown. Sometimes they emit young plants at the base of the leaves. Seeds 
are also sometimes produced by which they may be increased. The pot for sowing these should be 
prepared as recommended for the potting — only use a little very fine soil on the top to receive the seed ; 
this soil is to be pressed even, the seed scattered over the surface, and covered very thinly with short 
moss. The seed pots must be watered as recommended for the established plants. The seedlings 
arc to be potted off when large enough, and treated like the others. 
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THE ROSE GARDEN. 
By Mr. G. GLENNY, F.H.S. 
THE CLASSES AND QUALITIES OF ROSES. 
TTIHERE has been raised a general complaint among those who have fancied that a great variety of 
iV roses was desirable. They have seen a trade catalogue, which contained some hundreds of names, 
divided into more than a score of families, with certain distinctions which have been either not under- 
stood, or altogether deceptive. For instance, the family distinguished as " Rosa Alba," contains varie- 
ties of many colours, although many persons fancied that it meant white; the "Damask" family com- 
prises colours very different from Damask. Although we are not the first to call for the change, we 
quite agree that the arrangement of the catalogues should be altered. Persons who have selected from 
the descriptions and family names in the trade lists have, perhaps, ordered one hundred varieties ; but 
have suffered such a complete disappointment that they would readily, if they could, clear their gar- 
dens of three-fourths, when they have seen the true character of such flowers as hybrid perpetuals, 
that bloom for a shorter time and worse than the old cabbage rose ; hybrid chinas, that flower but 
little ; many with soft flimsy petals, others with semi-double flowers ; some so nearly alike as not to 
be distinguished by the common observer, others of exceedingly awkward growth, scarcely manage- 
able as standards ; besides a great number which flower nearly three weeks in the season, and all the 
rest of the summer and autumn, form ugly objects in the borders or on the lawns. 
We think that the families are badly distinguished, and that now, as seedlings run so much out of 
one into another, the sections ought to be so arranged that all men can understand them : Moss Moses 
are understood by every body. Summer Moses should comprise all those which bloom a month only. 
Noisettes — all those which flower in bunches. Continuous bloomers — call them any name you please 
— all those which are of the nature of the old China, growing and flowering till the frost cuts them 
off. Climbing — all those which make strong long shoots every season. Everybody would then under- 
stand what the distinction meant; but who cares whether a Rose be Damask, Gallica, Alba, Bourbon, 
Perpetual, China, Provence, or Hybrid to any of these, if he can but understand whether it be a sum- 
mer Rose of a month, or a continuous blooming Rose to decorate his garden half the year? What 
boots it that a Rose is a Hybrid Perpetual, or a Hybrid China, if it is to bo bare of flowers all the 
year, but June or July, or half in each? A collection of a hundred varieties of Roses, forming a line 
on each side a path is often truly a miserable sight ; nothing makes a more ugly blank than a bare 
Rose tree. Instead of a man boasting that he has a hundred plants always in flower, and comprising 
half-a-dozen of the best in cultivation, it is the fashion among those who lose sight of effect, to boast of 
having so many varieties. 
The Rose-buyer should recollect that in Tlie Properties of Flowers and Plants (Cox, London) there 
arc the full particulars of what a Rose should be, and it is the only work in which the properties which 
constitute perfection arc laid down. We are not going to elaborate on these properties, but there are 
some leading points which must not be lost sight of, and among these, that first of all qualities among 
garden (lowers — continuous blooming. A Rose-border or plantation that belongs to the general fea- 
tures of the garden ought never, during the season, to exhibit bare Rose-trees; better have twenty of 
one sort than plant those which are of temporary beauty. From the authority to which we have 
referred, \vr learn that a Rose should he circular, full on the fare, thick and smooth cm the petal, very 
double, and very symmetrical. All these points are essential in flowers to exhibit; but Roses, for this 
purpose, should be grown together, because, many of them, however temporary their beauty as 
plants, arc grand when cut; and they arc wanted only when Roses ore shown. 
Roses, however, that form part of the features of a garden, should he always in bloom, it' possible. 
Let them be of good habit, to form a tine head; never mind having a dozen of a sort. There IS QOt ;\ 
finer object than "a rose-tree in full bearing." There is hardh a more Ugly object than one growing 
