beauties of the vegetable world raising themselves 
against the front of the humblest cottage, and 
proudly telling each passer-by, that health and 
comfort reside within. 
Mr. Loudon, in his very comprehensive Ency- 
clopaedia of Gardening, observes that Villaresi, at 
the royal gardens of Monza, has raised upwards of 
fifty varieties of the Rosa Indica; some of them 
quite black, others shaped like a ranunculus, and 
many of them highly odoriferous. Villaresi, as a 
propagator of Roses, is well known ; and in this 
age of Rosa-mania, and wandering propensities of 
the English, when a tour to Italy excites but little 
more concern than a twenty-mile journey ditlto our 
forefathers, it is singular that England has not been 
furnished with these novelties. 
For the production of new varieties of Roses it 
is necessary to plant different sorts together, by 
which means the flowers of one sort become, occa- 
sionally, impregnated with the qualities of another, 
and the seeds subsequently matured from such 
flowers, produce young plants of a hybrid or mixed 
character ; and indeed sometimes possessing quali- 
ties highly superior to either parent. For this pur- 
pose the Rosa Indica may be most advantageously 
mixed, as it was by Villaresi with the various 
European species ; for though the seeds of many of 
our best dark coloured roses rarely come to matu- 
rity in this climate, still the anthers of such are per- 
fect; and the farina, doubtless, will produce the 
necessary fructifying qualities on such sorts as per- 
fect their hips freely in England, which is the case 
with the China Rose. 
Hort. Kew. 2, v. 3, 266. 
