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sight. The beds themselves are filled with gentians, 

 primulas, aubrietias, saxifrages, sedums, dianthuses, silenes, 

 lithospermiims, dwarf phloxes, etc., which produce masses 

 of colour at different seasons of the year, rivalling the effects 

 by tender bedding plants, besides being permanent and 

 most interesting at all seasons. 



Another important feature was added in 1889, viz., 

 " The Climber Garden." This has proved an entire 

 success. It consists of 50 circular beds, each 3 feet in 

 diameter. A good stout spruce fir about 15 feet high is 

 placed in the centre of each bed, round which the climbers 

 cling for support, the remainder of the ground lieing taken 

 up by gravel paths. Xo grass is used, in order that the 

 climbers may be examined without getting the feet wet. 

 Among the climbers are various kinds of clematis, jasmines, 

 roses, AristolocMa Sipho, Actinidia Kolomikta, PeripJoca 

 grceca, Mutisia cUcurrens, Tropceolum tuberosum, T. speciosu7n, 

 Wistaria sinensis, Lathyrus latifolius, hop, Virginian creeper, 

 etc. But none is more effective than the new climbing 

 rose, " Crimson Eambler." The history of this rose is 

 intimately connected with Easter Duddingston garden, 

 and affords one of the many instances of Mr. Jenner's 

 characteristic generosity. In 1878, Mr. Jenner received 

 a consignment of plants from Japan, which he had com- 

 missioned Professor E. Smith, at that time Professor of 

 Engineering at Tokio, to obtain for him. Among the 

 plants thus received was this splendid rose, which Mr. 

 Jenner named " The Engineer," in compliment to Professor 

 Smith. The rose, which proved to be a new variety of 

 Rosa polyantha, was much admired, and Mr. Jenner, wishing 

 to spread such a good plant abroad and at the same time 

 help a deserving man, presented, in 1889, the whole stock 

 to Mr. John Gilbert, a small nurseryman at Lincoln in 

 whom he was interested. Mr. Gilbert, in the following 

 year, exhibited cut flowers of " The Engineer " at a meeting 

 of the Eoyal Horticultural Society in London, when it was 

 unanimously awarded a certificate of merit, but as he had 

 not the means of placing the plant properly on the market, 

 he obtained ]\Ir. Jenner's permission to dispose of the stock 

 to Mr. Charles Turner, of the Eoyal Nurseries, Slough 

 Turner changed its name to that of " Crimson Eambler," 



