ROSA. 357 ROSA. 
form another family of Roses, though | posure rather than a southern one ; 
not a numerous one, as there are | and the shoots should never be cut 
not above ten ortwelve kinds; they|in. This Rose, in fact, does not 
have very long slender branches, | require any pruning, except what 
which being too weak to support} may be necessary to remove the 
alone their large bunches of flowers, | dead wood; or to train the plant 
should be trained against a wall.| into shape, though the latter should 
These Roses never require pruning be avoided as much as possible, as 
(except to cut out the dead wood), | all wounds on this Rose are apt to 
as the flowers are only produced at | produce canker. It is said to flow- 
the extremity of the shoots. The ;er freely when grafted on the musk 
Banksian Roses (R. Banksie),| cluster at eight or ten feet from the 
which are of two kinds, one with! ground, or on the common China 
buff flowers and the other with| Rose; but I have never seen the 
white; the Macartney Roses (R.| experiment tried. The most beau- 
bracteata and R. microphy'ila) and | tiful yellow Roses I ever saw were 
some others, are natives of China, | in the neighbourhood of Worcester, 
and rather tender in England, re-| where the plant had grown in a 
quiring to be trained against a wall, | border in front of a south-eastern 
and to receive a little | protection in| wall, and had been paftly trained 
severe winters. R. Alpina, the| against it; though for some time 
Alpine Rose, of which there are a| before I saw it, probably two or 
great number of varieties; R. lu- three years, it had evidently been 
téscens, the yellow American Rose; left entirely to Nature. A plant, 
and R. spinosissima, the Scotch supposed to be the single state of 
Rose, of which there are almost in- | this Rose, was imported about 1835, 
numerable varieties, are hardy, early- | by Sir Henry Willich, from Persia, 
flowering Roses, that will grow in| and flowered for the first time in 
almost any soil or situation. R.| England in the garden of the Lon- 
sulphirea, the double yellow Rose, | don Horticultural Society, in the 
is, however, more difficult to man- | summer of 1840. 
age. This beautiful Rose, which|* There are many other Roses not 
till lately was only known in a_ included in the foregoing enumera- 
double state, has large drooping tion ; the best known of which are 
flowers, shaped like those of the the white Rose, Rosa dlba, with its 
common Cabbage Rose, and is sup- numerous varieties ; the yellow Aus- 
posed to be a native of Persia. In trian Rose, R. hitea, which has the 
some situations it grows freely; ‘petals scarlet above ‘and yellow be- 
but in others the flower-buds burst neath; the Sweet Brier or Eglan- 
on one side, when only half formed, | tine, R. rubigndsa, with its very 
and the flowers are thus imperfect. numerous varieties; the common 
It should be grown in an open airy Dog Rose, or brier, R. canina, 
situation, in a light free soil, and it; which is common in the hedges in 
should have abundance of light and | England, and its multitude of varie- 
air. It should be well supplied with ties ; the ever-flowering dark-crim- 
water during the flowering season, | son Chinese Rose, R. semperflérens, 
but the ground in which it grows | and the Fairy Rose, R. Lawrence- 
should be so well drained as never | dna. 'To these may be added the 
to allow the water to remain in a} Isle of Bourbon Roses, R. Bourbon- 
stagnant state about the roots.| idna, the origin of which is uncer- 
When trained against a wall, it| tain; but which are generally sup- 
should have a north or eastern ex-| posed to be hybrids between the 
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