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These Roses are also most appropriate for covering bowers in tlie 

 rosarium, or arched entrances leading to it. They are very effective 

 upon banks and slopes, which they seem to flood with a white cascade 

 of Roses ; and budded upon tall standards of the Briar, they may be 

 soon trained into Weeping Roses — into fountains of leaves and flowers. 



Would that Burns had gazed and written upon the lovely little 

 Banksian Rose. He would not have esteemed the wee modest daisy 

 one iota the less— he was too true a florist for that ; but he would 

 have painted for us in musical words a charming portrait of this 

 pocket, or rather button-hole, Venus— this petite mi'jnoiine flower, 

 which would make a glorious bouquet for Queen Mab's coachman, 

 when she appeared in public, as queens do in fairyland. Or it would 

 make a sweet bridal wreath, as I remember to have seen it once in my 

 childhood, for a doll's wedding— a happier one, I would hope, than 

 that to which I refer, when the bride on her way to the altar fell 

 prone from our tall rocking-horse, and broke her bridal nose- The 

 Banksian Rose is indeed 



"A miniature of loveliness, all grace 

 Summed up and closed in little ; " 



and both the Yellow and White varieties — the latter having a sweet 

 perfume, as though it had just returned from a visit to the Violet — 

 should be in every collection of mural Roses. The plants should be 

 on their own roots, and those roots should be well protected during the 

 winter months. It cannot be warranted perfectly hardy, but with 

 careful mulching there is scarcely one frost in a lifetime which will 

 kill it. It may be injured even to the ground, but it will come up 

 again with wondrous rapidity. A tree of mine, which half-covered 

 my house, perished in 1860-1, but it was not sufficiently guarded, 

 because I thought it safe ; and " 'Tis better to have loved and lost 

 than never to have loved at all." 



Under favourable circumstances, the growth of this Rose is most 

 luxuriant. A French writer on Roses tells us of a tree at Toulon 

 which covered a wall 75 feet in breadth and 15 to 18 in height, and 

 which had fifty thousand flowers in simultaneous bloom ; and speci- 

 mens may be seen in our own gardens and conservatories which repress 

 any unbelief. The trees should be pruned when they have flowered 

 in summer, so that a fresh growth of laterals may be well ripened 

 before winter, and bloom in the ensuing spring. 



Rather more than twenty years ago, Mr Fortune sent over a batch 

 of Climbing Roses from China, and from one of them, named Fortune's 

 Yellow, great expectations rose. It was described by a rosarian at 

 Seven Oaks as being " nearly as rampant as the old Ayrshire, quite 



