ROSA SEMPERVXRENS 
gardens of the Due d’Orleans at Neuilly where Jacques was gardener. 
Felicite et Perpetue is one of the best known, and it is highly esteemed 
for its beauty and luxuriance and at the same time vigorous constitution. 
Myrianthes Renonciile, Princesse Maria , etc., and indeed the whole 
series are invaluable for training on pergolas or as pillar Roses wher- 
ever vigorous growth, ample foliage and masses and wreaths of flowers 
are desired. All the garden varieties of Rosa sempervirens retain the 
semipersistent foliage of the type, and in a mild winter the leaves 
remain on the plants throughout until the coming of spring renews 
them. 
Rosa longicuspis of Bertoloni, though accepted as a species by Sir 
J. D. Hooker, is probably nothing more than a robust geographical 
variety of Rosa sempervirens. It is confined to the mountains of 
Assam, and possibly Burma, and ascends to 5,000 feet above sea-level. 
Rosa sempervirens is figured by Andrews. 1 
1 Roses , vol. ii. t. 89 (1828). 
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