they may be planted out again in 

 the open garden. The Noisettes 

 are supposed to arise from a hybrid 

 between the Chinese Kose and the 

 Musk Kose, raised by ]\I. Philippe 

 Noisette, at 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 stan- 

 dards and for rose-pillars. There 

 are nearly a hundred different kinds 

 of Noisette Roses. 



The climbing Roses are of four 

 different kinds : the Ayrshire, the 

 Evergreen, the Cluster-flowered, 

 and the Boursault. The Ayrshii-e 

 climbing Roses are all varieties of 

 R. arvensis, a trailing plant, which, 

 when left on the gound, in moist 

 places, will throw out roots at every 

 joint ; but they are climbers by 

 elongation, stretching themselves 

 upwards through a mass of hedges 

 and bushes, and covering them with 

 flowers. The branches are in ge- 

 neral slender and feeble ; and where 

 they have no supports 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. 

 sempervirens) is a native of the 

 south of France, greatly resembling 

 the AjT-'shire 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 

 flower fi-eely 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, Avhich 

 will throw out roots, and the plant 

 will thus grow vigorously. A slop- 

 ing bank covered with these Roses, 

 in front of a breakfast -room window, 

 has a most beautiful effect. They 

 also look well grafted on low stan- 

 dards of the common Dog-rose, as 

 the shoots will descend all round 

 and form a cone or pyi-amid of 

 Roses. The many or cluster- 

 flowered Rose {R. multifiora) is a 

 beautiful plant, bearing large clus- 

 ters of Roses : sometimes of more 

 than fifty roses in one cluster. 

 More than three thousand Roses 

 have been counted on a plant of 

 this species at one time. The Seven 

 Sisters' Rose {R. m. Grevillei) is a 

 variety of this species. The Bour- 

 sault Rose is generally considered by 

 botanists to be another variety of 

 R. multijldra, 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. All these Roses may be 

 made to form beautiful objects on a 

 I lawn, by training them up parasol- 

 I wires, which may be purchased at 

 I any ironmonger s; or up a pyramid, 

 j The latter may be made either of 

 I iron rods and wire, or of three 

 pieces of wood, with holes bored in 

 j them at regidar 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 beneath. 

 Climbing Roses may also be trained 

 , over trellis-work, or up the trunks 

 I of trees; in which last case they 



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