SPECIES AND VARIETIES. 
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Rivers “at first thought a Hybrid China,” and says, “will, perhaps, 
be better grouped with the Damask Roses.' 
Scotch. Roses. 
So long as this family was allowed to be kept select, these ro3es 
were very distinct; they make long briery shoots, and flower with 
small blooms almost like briers, the whole length of stems. They are 
exceedingly pretty, formed as a bank, or in clumps. They are not 
adapted for standards. They bloom early, and the Scotch nurserymen 
now boast of two or three hundred varieties: but like all the other 
families, there are many among them that have been raised from seed, 
and others imported, which are neither by name nor nature Scotch. 
Amiable etrangere is a French hybrid. Adelaide is a large Red Double 
Rose. La Cenomane is a French hybrid with large flowers, “not so 
robust as the pure Scotch varieties.” 
The Sweet Brier. 
This lovely ornament, or rather tenant of the garden, is universally 
admired for the delicious fragrance of its foliage, and for nothing else. 
It is only necessary to say here, that others whose leaves are not fra¬ 
grant have been placed with it to make a family; some of the new 
members having but little fragrance, and one, the Scarlet Sweet Brier, 
none at all. * . - • 
The Austrian Brier. 
Here we have the same evidence of indecision as to where things 
ought to be placed. In this scentless family we have Williams’ Double 
Yeilow Sweet Brier. In fact, the Sweet Brier and the Austrian Brier 
are muddled together so completely that catalogues do not agree, and 
the further we go, the more confusion we get into, and more instances 
occur of removal from one division to another. 
The Double Yellow Rose 
Here we have only two individuals, the old Double Golden Yellow, 
sc beautiful and double as to be universally admired, and the Jaune, 
a dwarf kind, both shy bloomers under ordinary management, or 
