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SPECIES AND VARIETIES. 
even Mr. Rivers himself says, “ As a Pillar Rose, it will form a splendid 
object.” The White Bourbon, which the French cultivators are at 
war about, “some swearing,” as Mr. Rivers tells us, “by all their 
saints that it is a veritable Bourbon, wffiile others as strongly maintain 
that it is a Noisette;” and from its clustered flowers the latter are 
nearest right. But all this arises from the multiplication of families. 
Cnina Hoses. 
Everybody knows the Pale China and the Dark China Roses, which 
may be seen decorating the cottages of our industrious classes as well 
as the gardens of the rich. They were, however, Bengal Roses, and 
not natives of China. Now the distinguishing characteristic of the 
Bengal, or, as now called, China Rose, is smooth bark, with the thorns 
distant from each other; shining leaves, and constant growing and 
blooming. These features could be well understood by everybody; 
but everything that can be at all traced to have any one of these fea¬ 
tures, and cannot be easily placed in other families, must come to this; 
and so we have plenty, and a most beautiful family it is. 
Tea-scented China Hoses. 
This is an acknowledged variation of the Bengal, or, as the rose 
dealers will have it, China Rose; but it is a true China, imported into 
England from that empire in 1810. It is said to have been the parent 
of this large family; but here we have the same difficulty that pre¬ 
sents itself in other families—there is no place to draw the line; they 
are China Roses, and only China Roses, but they are stronger scented 
than the Bengal, called Common China, and it is difficult to detect the 
difference between the highest perfumed of the former class and the 
lowest perfumed of the China Tea Roses, as now classed. 
Miniature Hoses. 
This family is also said to be China, possessing all the marked fea¬ 
tures ; but it is smaller than the others, and is acknowledged by Mr. 
Rivers to be only a dwarf variety of the Common China, or, as we 
insist, Bengal. It is worthy of remark, that all those so-called China 
Roses have the characteristics we have mentioned, the constant grow- 
