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selected, and of Teas, Gloire de Dijon, 

 Amabilis, Homer; Adam, Frageo- 

 letta, Compte de Paris, Devoniensis, 

 and Marechul Bugeaud. Of Noisettes, 

 Jaune Desprez, Ophirie, Triomphe de 

 la Duchere, Aimee Vibert ; and of 

 musk roses, Princesse de Nassau. 

 As -the Teas and Noisettes are com- 

 paratively tender, the Hybrid per- 

 petuals and Bourbons will be found 

 most generally useful for this purpose, 

 and are to be preferred on their own 

 roots. 



Banks, Teees, and Wildeb- 

 nesses. — In wild scenes, and where 

 truly rustic roses are required, the 

 Ayrshires answer admirably, being 

 of rapid wiry growth, and requiring 

 only to be trained — if trained — the 

 first season, after which they will take 

 care of themselves, and festoon dead 

 or living trees, ruins, gateways, and 

 other rough elevations most gracefully 

 and profusely. To start them well 

 give every plant a square yard of pre- 

 pared soil, consisting of good loam 

 and one third manure, or if the staple 

 is clay, break it up and manure it 

 without introducing loam, and if they 

 have but a moderate share of daylight 

 they will grow in the confusion of a 

 glorious wilderness, and make good 

 hold for themselves wherever they 

 go. Ayrshire and sempervirens roses 

 furnish precisely the kind of materials 

 needed for the banks of wilderness 

 walks and for open spots in wood- 

 lands, and to clothe mounds and 

 knolls where mere weeds would be 

 obnoxious, and choicer plants out of 

 place. Let the ground be well dug 

 over and manured, and then plant the 

 varieties in masses of a dozen of one 

 kind together, the plants five feet 

 apart every way, and after that an 

 occasional dressing of manure on the 

 surface is all they require. Even that 

 is unnecessary on good clay or loamy 

 soils. Mr. Bivers tells how sixteen 

 years ago he covered a steep bank of 

 hard white clay next the high road 

 at Sawbridgeworth with " Ayrshire 

 and other climbing roses ; holes were 

 made in the hard soil with a pick two 

 feet over and two feet deep ; some 

 manure mixed with the clay, after it 

 had lain exposed to frost to mellow it, 

 and climbing roses planted. This 



bank is, when the roses are in bloom, 

 a mass of beauty. I have never seen 

 anything: in climbing roses to equal 

 it." (" Rose Amateur's Guide.") The 

 cruel winter of 1860 killed all those 

 roses to the ground, and the bank 

 had to be planted with shrubs. But 

 in the summer of 1863, when I walked 

 over that same bank with Mr. Bivers, 

 the roses were breaking through the 

 turf in all directions, forming distinct 

 patches of crimson and orange foliage, 

 and now they promise to recover the 

 splendour they possessed in bygone 

 years, and, like the leather bottle, 

 which "may fall, but cannot be 

 broken," so these may show that they 

 have such a vigour of life underground 

 that though frost may destroy all it 

 can reach, it is powerless to kill them 

 outright. There are not many varieties 

 of Ayrshire roses. The best for 

 general purposes is Quee)i of the Bel- 

 gians, flowers pure white, double, 

 plentifully produced. Ayrshire Queen 

 is the only dark one of this race, the 

 colour purplish crimson, the habit less 

 vigorous than the rest in this selec- 

 tion, yet it is not wanting in vigour. 

 Ruga is a splendid rose, the flower 

 large and double, and a delicate pale 

 flesh colour. Dundee Rambler is the 

 most vigorous grower of all, an almost 

 double white, blooming in clusters, 

 and superb in its way when in full 

 bloom, a splendid rose for a ruin or 

 dead tree. Splendens is white, edged 

 with red, and only semi-double, and 

 is desirable only where many varieties 

 are required. 



Wall Boses. — All the foregoing 

 may be turned to good account on 

 walls, but as walls are good positions, 

 they should be appropriated to the 

 best roses that can be had for them. 

 I shall never forget visiting my ex- 

 cellent friend, J. Brickwell, Esq., of 

 Tottenham, who had the most perfect 

 bijou of a rose garden 1 have ever seen, 

 and seeing a great breadth of wall on 

 one side of the dwelling house, which 

 is fitted from the eaves to the ground 

 line with a wooden trellis, completely 

 covered with Jaundtre and Wistaria 

 sinensis freely intermixed, and one 

 mass of bloom throughout ; such a 

 curious blending of fawn colour and 

 bluish purple as one can only expect to 



