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THE FLORIST'S JOURNAL. 
South America, in Australia, and in the islands of the Pacific, we 
believe, there are no Roses, although the soil and climate are not 
unsuitable to them. In China they are general ornaments ; on 
the plains of India, there are not merely acres but square miles 
grown for the manufacture of the costly and exquisite attar of 
roses; Persia, Syria, and some parts of Egypt, still retain their 
ancient celebrity for these lovely plants ; and Psestum and 
various other ruins in Italy stand monumental of the attention 
paid to them by the luxurious Romans. The Rose, in one 
or other of its varieties, is acclimated to every region, from the 
hottest plains of Asia to the slopes of the Scottish mountains, 
where the little Rosa spinosissima grows in the utmost per¬ 
fection. 
What is even more remarkable, the Roses of every climate 
appear to be capable of uniting with those of every other, not as 
mules or hybrids, as they are improperly termed, but as fertile 
and perfect varieties. The obtaining of those varieties by cross 
impregnation is one of the chief arts of the florist ; and one in 
which he is more successful than in many others. Since so many 
new varieties of Roses were imported, especially from France, or 
from warmer countries, they have occupied the attention of the 
floriculturist far more than they did before. Many of those new 
Roses are autumnal ones, that is, they require a larger continued 
heat to make them bloom in our climate than the older Roses. 
The consequence of this has been a vast prolongation of the 
season of Roses. By proper selection and culture some of the 
earlier Roses, under shelter, may be made to bloom as early as 
April, or even as the end of March ; and the bloom may be kept 
up in different varieties, and with proper treatment, till the 
middle or near the end of October. Thus there are, even now, 
only between three and four months of the year without blooming 
Roses;—some of the China ones, if on a warm wall, bloom over 
the snow; and it is not too much to expect that ere long w'e shall 
have a regular succession of blooming Roses all the year round-; 
and that many which now expand their buds late in the spring, 
and shed their leaves early in the autumn, will either be changed 
to evergreens themselves, or have their leading properties imparted 
to others which are evergreen. Most, if not all, of the summer or 
early blooming Roses perfect their seeds with us ; and the same is 
the case with a few of the earlier autumnal ones ; so that, if the 
