AUTUMNAL ROSES. 
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different from all the others, he planted it in his garden. When 
M. Breon became curator of the botanical gardens in Bourbon 
he cultivated this one with assiduity, obtained many plants, 
named it after the island, and in 1822 sent plants and seeds of 
it to France, where it became a favorite; has been extensively 
cultivated, and many hybrids obtained from it, some of them re¬ 
sembling the original and some not. The true Bourbons have 
the leaves serrated, the flowers very handsome, but varying much 
in their colours, and also in their habit, some of them being dwarf 
roses, others medium sized, and others again of vigour and 
growth, and well adapted for pillar roses. Generally speaking, 
their colours are intense, and some of them almost pure scarlet, 
but a few of them are blush coloured. The greater part of them 
answer well for a bed, and their growth, and the sizes and colours 
of the flowers, make it not difficult, with a proper knowledge of 
them and a skilful selection, to make up a handsome and varied 
bed of Bourbon roses alone. Most of them have the flowers 
double, some drooping and some standing erect. Of the hy¬ 
brids there are some which are too vigorous in growth for a bed, 
but they answer remarkably well as pillar roses. One of the most 
striking of these is Gloire de Rosamiene, which is of luxuriant 
growth, large leaves, and semi-double flowers of very rich co¬ 
lour. On a pillar it may be grown to the height of fifteen feet; 
and, as it is in flower from June to October, it forms a most de¬ 
lightful ornament. Many others answer for the same purpose, 
but the one now named is among the most splendid. The hy¬ 
brids from the Bourbon roots are however so numerous, and new 
ones are so frequently obtained, that it is impossible to give any 
description of them. 
2. China Roses. These are also called Indian roses; and in¬ 
deed it is not easy to say in what part of eastern Asia the culti¬ 
vated roses of these countries originated ; we can only say from 
what country they were first introduced into western Europe. 
There are two sections of these which are properly called China 
roses, and supposed to have been introduced into this country 
in the latter part of the eighteenth century. These varieties are 
the common China rose, and the crimson, or new-flowering 
ones. 
Both sections are apt to sport so much when raised from seed, 
and that without any artificial or indeed, it should seem, any 
