cate white stripe in the centre of each petal. It is one of the most hardy and desirable of the old China Roses.

AIMÉE PLANTIER is a fine, large rose, cupped and very double. Its color is bright fawn, tinted with blush, and it is one of the hardiest of the class.

AIMÉE VIBERT, N., is one of the most beautiful of the Noisette or cluster-flowering roses. It blooms freely through the season, is tolerably hardy, and produces an abundance of small, snowwhite flowers, in fine clusters.

ARCHDUKE CHARLES is a fine cupped and hardy rose (in this class we always use hardy comparatively). Its color is rose, changing to crimson during expansion, and having frequently a beautiful carnation-like appearance.

AUGUSTINE HERSENT is a very hardy and luxuriant-growing variety, of distinct character; its form is cupped, and its color a fine bright rose.

BARBOT, T., is a very large cupped rose, tea-scented and of a beautiful fawn color.

BOCAGE, T., is a very beautiful new tea-scented variety. Its flowers are large and double, and of a delicate white, tinged with yellow.

BOUGERE, T., is a very large, superb rose, one of the very best of the tea-scented varieties. Its form is cupped, and its color a rich, glossy, bronzed rose.

BOULOGNE, N., is a brilliant cupped rose, blooming in clusters of a deep crimson-purple.

BOUQUET TOUT FAIT, N., is a very luxuriant-growing pillar rose, blooming in immense clusters. It is very fragrant, and its color is creamy white, with buff toward the centre.

CAPRICE DES DAMES is a very beautiful little miniature rose, formerly classed with others of the same character, under the name of Rosa Lawrenceana. Its foliage is beautiful and delicate, and its very small, fairy flowers are of a bright rose color. For window culture these little miniature roses are very beautiful. CAROLINE, T., is a fine variety, with very double and perfect flowers, of a bright rose color.

CHROMATELLA, N., is a truly magnificent and splendid rose, raised at Angers (France), from Lamarque; and, as bloomed in our vinery and grounds, is fully equal to our engraving. It is of robust habit, and its luxuriant shoots would make it a fine pillar rose. Its leaves are large and glossy, with a beautiful, rich purple edge when young. The bud is of a rich cream color, but when the large globular flower is fully expanded, its color is a brilliant and beautiful yellow, with petals whose thickness will endure the hottest sun without fading. When the plant is young, it is rather a shy bloomer, but when of some age and in a good soil and location, nothing can exceed the magnificence of its superb flowers. In our grounds it has endured our coldest winters, but it would be safest to protect it.

CLARA SYLVAIN is one of the best white roses of the old China class. It grows very freely, and gives its globular, pure white and fragrant flowers in the greatest abundance.

CLARISSA HARLOWE, N., is a fine cluster-flowering variety, with very large and double flowers, of a pale blush color. Its vigorous and luxuriant growth adapts it well for pillars.

COMTE DE PARIS, T, is a superb cupped and tea-scented rose, whose magnificent size and hardy, robust nature fully compensate for its deficiency of petals, when fully expanded. Its foliage is large, its growth is very luxuriant, and its flowers of a pale rose color.

COMTE OSMOND, T., is a new and fine rose, with very double flowers, of a beautiful cream color.

DAILY BLUSH is one of the oldest China Roses, but one of the very best. There can be nothing more perfect than its halfexpanded bud, of a light crimson, inclining to blush. It commences blooming among the earliest, and, if the old seed-vessels are picked off, will continue to bloom abundantly through the summer and autumn, even after severe frosts. It is one of the hardiest of the class, and if left in this latitude unprotected during the winter, will lose no more wood than it will be necessary to cut out in the spring. It grows freely, and making a stiff, upright bush, would be well adapted for a hedge-the winter per

forming the office of the shears. We recollect seeing at Genoa, in Italy, a beautiful hedge of this rose, which, even at that time, in mid-winter, had not lost all its foliage. We can imagine few things more beautiful than a well-cultivated hedge of this rose, with its smooth, glossy foliage well sprinkled with the beautiful ruby-tinted buds.

DAILY WHITE is very similar to the preceding, in everything but the color of its flowers, which are pure white. Like the other, its fully expanded flowers are inferior to many other varieties, but its half-blown buds are very perfect, and make it a desirable plant for the bouquet-maker.

DEVONIENSIS, T., is a very beautiful rose, of immense size. Like Chromatella, it is sometimes a shy bloomer when young, but is well adapted for forcing. Its form is cupped, and its color a fine creamy white, tinted with rose.

DUCHESS OF KENT is a very beautiful variety. It is very double, with a perfect form, and of a delicate blush and pink color.

DUCHESSE DE MECKLENBURGH, T., is a very beautiful teascented variety, with very large cupped flowers, of a creamy yellow or straw color.

ECLAIR DE JUPITER, N., is a very distinct pillar rose, of most luxuriant habit. Its flowers are cupped, semi-double, and large. The inside of the petals is of a light vivid crimson, and the outside of a peculiar whitish appearance, as if powdered.

ELIZA SAUVAGE, T., is one of the finest of the tea-scented roses. Its habit is good, its bloom is free and abundant, and its very large and double globular flowers are of a fine pale yellow, with orange centre.

EUGENIE JOVIN, T., is one of the best of the new roses, scarcely inferior to any in this list. Its flowers are large, abundant, and of a flesh-colored white, slightly tinted with fawn.

FABVIER is a good rose, and hardy. It is desirable for its distinct flowers, whose color is a very brilliant and beautiful scarlet.

FELSENBORG, N., is one of the finest crimson cluster-blooming