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ROSA. 
den. The Noisettes are supposed | ing bank covered with these Roses 
to arise from a hybrid between the | 
Chinese Rose and the Musk Rose, 
Charleston in North America. This 
kind of rose is very hardy, and a 
most abundant flowerer, sixty or 
eighty flowers having been produced 
in one cluster; it is admirably 
adapted for standards and for rose 
pillars. ‘There are nearly a hun- | 
dred different kinds of Noisette | 
roses. 
The climbing Roses are of four 
different kinds; the Ayrshire, the 
evergreen, the cluster-flowered, and | 
the Boursault. he Ayrshire climb- 
ing Roses are all varieties of R. 
arvensis, a trailing plant, which, 
when left on the ground, in moist 
places, will throw out roots at every 
joint; but they are climbers by | 
elongation, stretching themselves 
upward through a mass of hedges 
and bushes, and covering them with | 
flowers. The branches are in gen- 
eral slender and feeble; and where 
they have no support, they are apt | 
to become entangled with each | 
other. All the Ayrshire Roses grow 
vigorously, sometimes making shoots 
twenty feet long in one season. 
The evergreen Rose (R. sempér- 
virens) is a native of the south of 
Europe, greatly 
Ayrshire Rose in its flowers, but 
differing in its leaves, which are 
smooth, leathery, and evergreen. 
The evergreen Roses do not make 
such vigorous shoots as the Ayr- 
shire Roses, and consequently are 
not so valuable as climbers; but 
they are much more so as under- 
growth, for covering the ground in 
shrubberies, as they grow and flow- 
er freely under the drip of trees. 
When thus trained, the shoots 
should be spread over the ground 
they are intended to cover, and 
pegged down near a joint, which 
will throw out roots, and the plant 
will thus grow vigorously. A slop- 
resembling the | 
'has a most beautiful effect. 
raised by M. Philip Noisette at | 
ards of the common Dog 
in front of a breakfast-room window 
They 
also look well grafted on low stand- 
Rose, as 
the shoots will descend all round 
and form a cone or pyramid of 
Roses. The many or cluster flow- 
ered Rose (R. multiflora) is a beau- 
tiful plant, bearing large clusters of 
Roses; sometimes of more than 
fifty Roses in one cluster. More 
than three thousand Roses have 
been counted on a plant of this spe- 
cies at onetime. The sevensisters’ 
Rose (R. m. Grevillei) is a variety 
of this species. The Boursault 
Rose is generally considered by 
Botanists to be another variety of 
R. multiflora, but it differs from 
that species in several important 
particulars. It is a hard-wooded 
durable Rose, producing abundance 
of flowers, and growing freely; the 
shoots, which are of a purplish red, 
and almost without thorns, being 
often fifteen feet long in one season. 
The flowers appear very early, and 
are remarkable for their reticulated 
petals. Allthese Roses may be made 
to form beautiful objects on a lawn 
by training them up parasol-wires, 
which may be purchased at any 
ironmonger’s, or up a pyramid. The 
latter may be made either of iron 
rods and wire, or of three pieces of 
wood, with holes bored in them at 
regular distances, through which 
narrow laths may be passed. It is 
useful to put a ball and spike on 
the top of this figure, to prevent 
birds from settling on it, which they 
would be very apt to do, and would 
dirty the flowers and foliage be- 
neath. Climbing Roses may also 
be trained over trellis-work, or up 
the trunks of trees; in which last 
case they should be allowed to 
climb through the head of the tree, 
and to hang down from the branches 
in wild and graceful festoons. 
Musk Roses (Rosa moschata,) 
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