will be produced, agreeing in every respect with the above description. Among the most superior varieties is Agnes Sorel, a delicate fresh-coloured rose, very double and finely shaped; Amelie Guerin is evidently from the seed of that good old rose, the Globe hip, but with smaller and more double flowers, of the same pure white, a pretty and distinct variety. Blanchefleur is of the most delicate flesh-colour, or nearly white, a new variety, very distinct and pretty. Cleliée is a magnificent rose, of the largest dimensions, forming a very fine standard, as its branches are graceful and spreading. Celinette is also a very large and fine rose, of the most delicate flesh-colour, possessing in its habits all the characters of this division.

Duchesse d'Angoulême, or the Wax Rose, is an old but deservedly a favourite variety: its colour is so delicate and its form so perfect, that it must always be admired; the habit of the plant is most luxuriant, and rather more erect than most other members of this family. Duvernay is a new and very fine variety, with flowers of the largest dimensions, of a delicate flesh colour, very double, and finely shaped. Enchantress grande Henriette, or Rose Parmentier, for these, and I believe some others, are its synonymes, is an old and most beautiful variety, so double and finely shaped that

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it may be considered a prize-rose of the first character.

Gracilis, or Shailer's Provence, is a very old and delicate growing rose, unlike most other varieties of this family in its habit, as it seems to be between the Boursault and Provence Rose. Gloriette is a new rose, of the very palest flesh-colour, finely shaped and of a desirable variety.

The Globe hip, the "Boule de Neige" of the French, was raised from seed many years since at the Hammersmith nursery. This is now much surpassed by some of our new white roses, but still it is a favourite variety. Its habit is most luxuriant; and if it is grafted on the same stem with George the Fourth, or some other vigorous growing dark variety, the union will have a fine effect. The Glory of France is an immense rose, of the most luxuriant habit, having a fine effect grown as a standard, but, like some other very large roses, its flowers are irregularly shaped. La Volupté is a new variety, possessing in its bright vivid rose-colour, and perfect shape, all that can be wished for in a rose. L'Ingénue is most undoubtedly a descendant of the Globe hip, with flowers of the purest white; the centre of the flower inclining to yellow; this is one of the finest white roses known, and, like the Globe hip, it is of the

most luxuriant habit. Lycoris is a new variety, of a fine vivid rose-colour, marbled and spotted distinct and beautiful manner.

in a very Malibran is a distinct and good rose, with peculiar glossy foliage and shoots; it is not spreading and diffuse in its habit, but very erect, unlike any other rose in this division: this rose has not yet bloomed in full perfection in this country. Reine des Belges, a fine white rose, was classed in the catalogue of last season among the hybrid China roses, but it is so evidently a seedling from the Globe hip, that I have now placed it in this division: this rose, when it blooms in perfection, is one of the most double and beautiful in existence. The Tree Peony Rose produces flowers rivalling in size those of the Pæonia Moutan, or Tree Pæony, but as they are flat, irregularly shaped, and not very double, it cannot long be a favourite with the amateur.*

To this family we have some interesting additions, particularly to white roses, of which Melanie, or Melanie de Waldor, and the New Double Globe, or Boule de Neige à fleurs pleines, are very perfect and beautiful varieties: the latter is also called Clarisse Jolivain; this is an improved variety of the Globe hip.

I have now placed this rose in my catalogue among the Damask roses, to which it is very nearly allied.

To blush roses, Duchesse d'Orleans, one of the most elegant delicate coloured roses known, and the Blush Globe, a seedling from the Globe hip fertilised with the Tuscany, are valuable additions as prize roses. "Elisa Leker" is a new deep rose-coloured variety, of much beauty.

Hybrid Provence roses are very robust and hardy, useful to the rose amateur, as serving to form a most delicate group of soft colours: they also make admirable standards, as the branches of most of the varieties are inclined to be spreading, diffuse, and of course graceful.

The seed-bearing roses of this family are the Globe hip, the flowers of which should not be fertilised if pure white roses are desired. Some few years since I raised a plentiful crop of seedlings from this rose, fertilised with the Tuscany, nearly all my plants produced semi-double blush and rose-coloured flowers; the Blush Globe was the only exception.

Blanchefleur, with Cleliée, would possibly produce seed from which fine shaped and delicate coloured roses might be expected. The same with the Tuscany rose would most likely originate deep rose-coloured varieties, with finely-shaped cupped flowers.

HYBRID CHINA ROSES.

(ROSA INDICA HYBRIDA.)

The superior varieties of this fine division give a combination of all that is or can be beautiful in roses; for, not only are their flowers of the most elegant forms and colours, their foliage of extreme luxuriance, but their branches are so vigorous and graceful, that perhaps no plant presents such a mass of beauty as a finely grown hybrid China rose in full bloom. They owe their origin to the China, Tea-scented Noisette and Bourbon roses, fertilised with the French, Provence, and other summer roses, and also to the latter crossed with the former; the seeds of such impregnated flowers producing hybrid China roses. These have, in many cases, resulted from accident, but latterly from the regular fertilising process, as mules or hybrids have been raised from well known parents.

In England, but few varieties have been originated; as the common China rose does not in general ripen its seeds sufficiently for germination. The parents of Brown's Superb Blush, which is an English hybrid, raised by the late Mr. Charles Brown of Slough, one of our most scientific and persevering cultivators, cut off in the prime of life, was the old Tea-scented rose, Rosa indica odorata, impregnated with some