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should be allowed to climb through 

 the head of the tree, and to hang 

 down from the branches in vdld and 

 graceful festoons. Hybrid Perpe- 

 tual Roses are useful for the long 

 time they remain in flower ; one of 

 them, Madame Laffay, having con- 

 tinued in flower, in the year 1843, 

 till the 29th of December. 



Musk Roses {Rosa moschata) form 

 another family of Roses, though not 

 a numerous one, as there are not 

 above ten or twelve kinds ; they 

 have very long slender branches, 

 which being too weak to support 

 alone their large bunches of flowers, 

 should be trained against a wall. 

 These Roses never require pruning 

 (except to cut out the dead wood), 

 as the flowers are only produced at 

 the extremity of the shoots. The 

 Banksian Roses {R. BdnJcsice) are 

 of two kinds, one with bufi" flowers, 

 and the other vrith white : the ]\Ia- 

 cartney Roses (R. hracteafa and R. 

 microphyUa) and some others, are 

 natives of China, and rather tender 

 in England, reqiiiring to be trained 

 against a wall, and to receive pro- 

 tection in severe winters. They are 

 also very apt to drop their flowers, 

 of which they produce a great quan- 

 tity, without fully opening them. 

 R. alpina, the Alpine Rose, of 

 which there are a great number of 

 varieties; R. IvMscens, the yellow 

 American Rose ; and R. spinosis- 

 sima, the Scotch Rose, of which 

 there are almost innumerable va- 

 rieties, are hardy, early flowering 

 Roses, that will gi-ow in almost any 

 soil or situation. R. sulpkurea, the 

 Double-yellow Rose, is, however, 

 more difficult to manage. This 

 beautiful Rose, which till lately was 

 only known in a double state, has 

 large drooping flowers, shaped like 

 those of the common Cabbage Rose, 

 and is supposed to be a native of 

 Persia. In some situations it grows 



freely ; but in others the flower- 

 buds burst on one side, when only 

 half formed, and the flowers are 

 thus imperfect. It should be grown 

 in an open aiiy situation, in a light 

 free soil, and it should have abun- 

 dance of light and air. It should 

 be well supplied with water during 

 the flowering season, but the ground 

 in which it grows should be so well 

 drained as never to allow the water 

 to remain in a stagnant state about 

 the roots. When trained against a 

 wall, it should have a north or 

 eastern exposure rather than a 

 southern one ; and the shoots should 

 never be cut in. This Rose, in fact, 

 does not require any pruning, except 

 what may be necessary to remove 

 the dead wood, or to train the plant 

 into shape ; though the latter should 

 be avoided as much as possible, as 

 all wounds on this Rose are apt to 

 produce canker. It is said to flower 

 freely when grafted on the ]\Iusk 

 cluster, at eight or ten feet from 

 the ground, or on the common China 

 Rose; but I have never seen the 

 experiment tried. The most beauti- 

 ful yellow Roses I ever saw were in 

 the neighbourhood of Worcester, 

 where the plant had grown in a 

 border in front of a south-eastern 

 wall, and had been partly trained 

 against it; though for some time 

 before I saw it, probably two or 

 three years, it had evidently been 

 left entirely to nature. A plant 

 supposed to be the single state of 

 this Rose, was imported about 1835, 

 by Sir Henry Willich, from Persia, 

 and flowered for the first time in 

 England in the garden of the Lon- 

 don Horticultural Society, in the 

 summer of 1840. 



There are many other Roses not 

 included in the foregoing enumera- 

 tion ; the best known of which are 

 the white Rose, Rosa alba, with 

 its numerous varieties; the yellow 



