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dotting that which •would be offensive to the eye of taste with lovely 

 and brilliant blossoms. One of the most interesting and beautiful 

 methods of utilizing these roses is to bud the stronger-growing 

 kinds with numerous other sorts of various colours, after the manner 

 described in Mr. Hibberd's valuable " Rose Book," a handbook no 

 lover of roses should presume to be without. Another way in 

 which these gems of the garden should be employed is pegged down 

 in beds ; white, yellow, rose, and scarlet charmingly intermingling, 

 and if on their own roots, multiplying themselves year after year, 

 till their owner could supply half a neighbourhood from their prolific 

 suckers. 



Mere generalities, however, do not convey much practical 

 instruction ; let us, therefore, proceed to an examination of the 

 kinds suitable for the purposes we have indicated. For instance, let 

 us take that old BouRBOif Armosa, a kind hardly heard of now-a- 

 days. What a glorious thing for a bright, ever-blooming bed ! 

 Eosy, double, and free to a degree, though small, and without much 

 substance ; like many others hereafter to be named, having no 

 pretensions as a florist's flower, but invaluable for the bed or 

 bouquet. Take others of the Bourbon class, which abounds in roses 

 eminent for garden properties, such as Acidalie, Bouquet de Flore, 

 Cornice de Seine ef Marne, Emotion (new), Pierre de St. Ci/r, 

 Dupetit Thouars, Paul Joseph, Le Grenadier (magnificent dark 

 colours of various shades), Paul et Virginie, Madame Besprez, Sir 

 Joseph Paxton, and Bourbon Queen, and we have a selection of hardy 

 autumnal bloomers of difi'erent colours and habits, admirably calcu- 

 lated for numerous garden purposes, which will bestow upon us 

 blooms when blooms are, alas, few and far between. 



Some of the true Noisettes are very rampant growers, and 

 commendably persevering in habits of bloom. Luxembourg is an old 

 variety of this kind, which will form a corner bush, and which, in 

 three or four seasons' growth, will attain the size of a huge lilac- 

 tree, large enough for a whole garden of other kinds to be budded 

 upon it. Other desirable sorts among the jS'oisettes may be found in 

 Jaime Besprez (unfortunately very tender). Eclair de Jupiter, 

 Vicomfesse d'Avesne (I fancy this is a Noisette), Ophirie, a peculiar 

 colour, Triomphe de la Buchere, La JBiche, Lamarque (a show rose) 

 superb on a warm wall ; and their newer congeners, Louise 

 Barzins (which quite supersedes that old favourite, Aimee Viberi), 

 Madame Alfred de Pougemont, Lady Emily Peel, and Pavilion de 

 Pregnij. These afford a completely different but not less useful 

 class of border ornaments, for the choice of the cultivator of 

 moderate desires, who has an eye for homely beauty, and is not 

 craving after the empty honour of a prize-box at some second-rate 

 show. 



Home of the older Hybrid Peepetuals furnish us with fine 

 specimens of the garden rose proper. What a chaste thing is 

 Noemi ! Sydonie, again, quite an enchantress, with globular blossoms 

 of true pink, a rare colour in modern roses. But let us go into a 

 list of some of these bygone charmers, which recall the days of 

 stomachers and lace, or the short waists and close garments of the 



