Of all single roses in flower, this is just now the best and the sweetest. It is distinct and beautiful alike in leafage and in blossom. Planted in good deep rich soil, it spreads rapidly, throwing up strong sucker shoots from its underground stems, and these flower freely all the summer months, and the flowers are succeeded by large oblate fruits or hips, quite an inch in diameter, and of a bright glossy lacquer-like red color when ripe. Its deep green leaves, netted like those of Salix reticulata, are much used by our lady friends to wear with the half opened buds of China, Banksian, Tea and other roses, or with the rich deep rosy buds of this Japan rose itself. Cut in the bud state, its flowers open out fresh and fair in water, and possess a singularly rich and piquant attar-like perfume. The snow-white variety is not quite so common, but is, if possible, even more beautiful. I am sorry to hear that when the white variety is obtained, it reverts to the red type sometimes ere it blooms. - The Garden.