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SPECIES AND VARIETIES. 
Banksian Roses. 
The "VHiite and Yellow Banksian Roses are very beautiful plants, 
with small foliage and flowers, very graceful, and distinct as any 
in cultivation; yet we have a rose-colored hybrid introduced with 
them; a plant acknowledged to partake “ as much of the characte-r 
of the Boursault Rose, as of the Banksian.” 
Hybrid Climbing Roses. 
These, onjs would think, are neither Climbing nor Dwarf, but be¬ 
tween both. Not so, however; because Rosa craculum makes shoots 
from ten to fifteen feet in a season. Madame d’Arblay, or Well’s 
White, has been formerly placed among the Evergreen Roses; but 
whether she misbehaved herself there, or was a great favorite here, is 
of no consequence. She was removed from that family to this. We 
are, however, informed, with regard to her sojourn among the family 
of Evergreens, and subsequent removal, that her “habit is so different 
and her origin so well ascertained, that Mr. Rivers removed her to the 
present family.” 
Perpetual Roses. 
These, if the rose gentlemen would stick to the character, would 
be very easily defined—roses which have a complete season of bloom; 
which go off but a short time ; make a fresh season of bloom, and so 
on. Not like the China Roses, always “ growing and blooming,” but 
fairly making different seasons of bloom, as complete as if a winter 
intervened. 
The Bourbon Rose. 
The original Bourbon Rose was a hybrid between the Common 
China and the Red Four Seasons. Of course, this was quite enough 
reason for rose growers to add to the family all that were something 
like it, and others that were nothing like it. Here let Mr. Rivers 
speak: “Diaphane is a small high-colored Rose, almost scarlet. This 
is not a true Bovrbon.” The fact is, there is nothing like the Bourbon 
Rose about it. Here we have also G-loire de Rosamene. unlike the 
Bourbon Rose in everything. It is a robust Climbing Rose, of which 
