bloom from June to November; on tall stems I have not found them flourish equally. About the end of March, not earlier, the branches of standards will require thinning out, and shortening to about half their length; in summer, a constant removal of their faded flowers is necessary, and this is all the pruning they require.

China Roses are better adapted than almost any other class for forming groups of separate colours. Thus, for beds of white roses, which, let it be remembered, will bloom constantly from June till October, Clara Sylvain and Madame Bureau are beautiful; the former is the taller grower, and should be planted in the centre of the bed; for crimson, take Cramoisie Superieure

-no other variety approaches this in its peculiar richness of colour; for scarlet, Fabvier; for red, Prince Charles and Carmin Superbe; for deep crimson, Eugene Beauharnais; for blush, Napoléon and Mrs. Bosanquet; the latter should be planted in the centre of the bed; for a variegated group, changeable as the cameleon, take Archduke Charles and Virginie; for rose, Madame Bréon. I picture to myself the above on a well-kept lawn, their branches pegged to the ground so as to cover the entire surface, and can scarcely imagine any thing more chaste and beautiful. All the varieties described in this article will be found desirable for pot-culture: they are more hardy, and bloom more abundantly in a lower temperature than the

Tea-scented Roses, and are thus admirably adapted for the "window garden."

Raising Varieties from Seed.

To succeed in making these roses bear and ripen their seed in this country, a warm dry soil and south wall are necessary; or, if the plants can be trained to a flued wall, success will be more certain. Eugène Beauharnais, fertilized with Fabvier, would probably produce first-rate brilliant coloured flowers. Archduke Charles, by removing a few of the small central petals just before their flowers are expanded, and fertilising it with pollen from Fabvier or Henry the Fifth, would give seed; and as the object ought to be in this family to have large flowers with brilliant colours and plants of hardy robust habits, no better union can be formed. China Roses, if blooming in an airy greenhouse, will often produce fine seed; by fertilising their flowers it may probably be ensured. In addition, therefore, to those planted against a wall, some strong plants of the above varieties should be planted in the orchard-house, the place above all others adapted for seed-bearing roses.

THE TEA-SCENTED CHINA ROSE.

(ROSA INDICA ODORATA.)

Rosier Thé.

This

The original Rosa odorata, or Blush Teascented Rose, has long been a favourite. pretty variation of the China Rose was imported into England from China in 1810; from hence it was sent to France, where, in combination with the yellow China or Tea Rose, it has been the fruitful parent of all the splendid varieties we now possess. Mr. Parkes introduced the yellow variety from China in 1824; and even now, though so many fine varieties have been raised but few surpass it in the size and beauty of its flowers, semi-double as they are: it has but a very slight tea-like scent, but its offspring have generally a delicious fragrance, which I impute to their hybridisation with Rosa odorata, In France the yellow Tea Rose is exceedingly popular, and in the summer and autumn months hundreds of plants are sold in the flower markets of Paris, principally worked on little stems or "mi-tiges." They are brought to market in pots, with their heads partially enveloped in coloured paper in such an elegant and effective mode, that it is scarcely possible to avoid being tempted

to give two or three francs for such a pretty object. In the fine climate of Italy, Tea-scented roses bloom in great perfection during the autumn: our late autumnal months are often too moist and stormy for them; but in August they generally flower in England very beautifully. I was much impressed in the autumn of 1835 with the effects of climate on these roses; for in a small enclosed garden at Versailles, I saw, in September, hundreds of plants of yellow Tea Roses covered with ripe seeds and flowers. The French cultivators say that it very rarely produces a variety worth notice. The culture of Tea-scented Roses is worthy of more attention than it receives, for surely no class more deserves it. In calm weather, in early autumn their large and fragrant flowers are quite unique, and add much to the variety and beauty of the autumnal rose garden.

In describing a few select varieties of this class, our first group shall comprise those with rosecoloured flowers; and two more beautiful roses cannot be imagined than Adam and Souvenir d'un Ami. How large, how finely shaped and fragrant are their flowers! Two very old friends in this range of colour deserve also a good word; Goubault for its exquisite fragrance, and Princesse Marie for greenhouse culture only, as its magnificent flowers seldom or never open in the open air. Many so called yellow roses are in this

group, but very few, however, deserve the appellation. Vicomtesse Decazes and Elise Sauvage are well known roses, and really are not yet surpassed the latter has, apparently, of late years become very delicate in its habit; this is to be regretted, for it is one of the most beautiful of Canary, a new semi-double rose from Lyons; in bud it is of the most brilliant yellow, and quite charming, but it must always be gathered when in bud.

roses.

Moiré and Barbot, two pale flesh-coloured roses, tinted with fawn, are very double and fine; the former, one of the largest roses of this class. Devoniensis, the only Tea-scented rose ever raised in England, is still unrivalled; its creamy white flowers, with their delicate rose-tint, are always beautiful. Among these almost white roses Madame Willermoz is very fine; its flowers are slightly tinted in the centre with salmon : it is one of the most robust and hardy of Tea Roses. Julie Mansais and Niphetos are two pure white roses of first-rate excellence. Victoria, Pellonia, and Narcisse, the latter an improvement on Pactolus, are three very pretty pale yellow roses. So far we have gone through the shades of colour in this class, leaving only that remarkable class of which Safrano is the type: the buds of this rose, as is well known, are of a deep fawn before expansion, and then very beautiful; but they soon fade on opening, and lose all their