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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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them unrivalled amongst the small-flowered types of Roses. A 
beautiful addition to the group is that shown in fig. 67 , Little Gem 
or Crimson Moss de Meaux, which was raised by Messrs. W. Paul 
and Son, Waltham Cross, and sent out in 1880, when it speedily attracted 
general attention. Its popularity is growing every year, and we venture 
arranged, that the flower in all its stages, from the bud to the 
fully expanded Rose, is a tiny gem. Those who are acquainted with 
the old Moss de Meaux, a lovely little Rose now almost extinct, may 
be told that the Little Gem is similar to that variety in size and shape, 
i hut the colour is deeper and fresher, and the plant grows freely, which 
Pig. 67.—MOSS ROSE LITTLE GEM. 
to predict that it will become one of the most favourite garden Roses 
in cultivation. 
An excellent coloured plate of the variety was given in Mr. W. Paul’s 
“Rose Annual” for 1879-80, accompanied by a good description, which 
we here reproduce. 
“The flowers when expanded are not larger than a shilling; the 
petals are small in proportion, regularly shaped, and so beautifully 
the former does not. It makes a beautiful compact-headed tree of small 
size when budded on short stems of the Dog Rose, the shoots formed 
after flowering rarely exceeding a foot in length. The form of the bud, 
flower, shoots, and leaves is well depicted by the artist, but the colour is 
usually of a much clearer tint, and the mossy envolope is equal, if not 
superior, to that of any variety in this group both as to style and 
quantity. Like all the Moss Roses of moderate growth, it delights in 
