SPECIES AND VARIETIES* 
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Moss Rose. 
This family is distinguished by the mossy appearance of their stems 
and the calyx, and therefore there is no difficulty in recognising any 
member of the family. 
The Trench Rose. 
This, to some of our readers, would appear to mean roses raised in 
France. It happens, however, that the original was, as many of the 
leading ones were, raised by Van Eden, in Holland, and it was years 
before the French raised a single seedling from them; nevertheless 
some of the so-called varieties were raised in France, but as there are 
hundreds raised in that country which are not belonging to this family, 
the distinguishing name fails; and were it not so, they are so unlike 
each other that one could not recognise, in any particular feature, 
; nough to decide, nor do the rose growers themselves appear more 
certain. 
Hybrid Provence Roses. 
These are said to be intermediate between French and Provence 
roses, because they have the long shoots of one and the dense foliage 
6f the other; the said long shoots and dense foliage being the charac¬ 
teristics of roses of other -families in quite as large a degree, and even 
in this very family, we have varieties which seem to be between the 
Boursault and Provence. So that all is indecision, change, uncertainty, 
and frivolity. In this family, the distinguishing character is that they 
^are robust and hardy;” so are hundreds that do not belong to it. 
Hybrid China Rosea. 
We are told of this family, that the numerous varieties give a com¬ 
bination of all that is beautiful in a Rose. They are said to owe their 
origin to all sorts of crosses ; but there is a distinguishing feature in 
these, if it be adhered to: “ leaves smooth, glossy, and sub-evergreen; 
branches long, luxuriant; and flexible.” Then, again, we are informed 
‘ that hybrids produced from the Rose, impregnated with the China 
