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severely, it will scarcely put foith a flower : it is 

 perhaps better as a pillar rose than grown in 

 any other mode, as it grows ten or twelve feet 

 in one season, and the pendulous clusters of 

 flowers, which are produced from these long 

 shoots unshortened, have a beautiful effect on a 

 pillar. 



Eivers's George the Fourth is still, perhaps, 

 one of the best of this family : it was raised from 

 seed by myself upwards of forty years ago, and 

 contributed probably more than anything to make 

 me an enthusiastic rose cultivator.* 



As with French roses, the new varieties of this 

 family are too numerous for detailed descriptions ; 

 but to one variety too much attention cannot be 

 directed, and this is Chenedole, so called from a 

 member of the Chamber of Deputies for Calvados, 

 a district in Normandy, where this fine rose was 

 raised. It has often been asserted that no rose 



* I hope to be pardoned the digression. Lut oven now I have 

 not forgotten the pleasure the discovery of this rose gave me. 

 One morning in June I was looking over the first bed of roses I 

 had over raised from seed, and searching for something new 

 among them with all the ardour of youth, when my attention 

 was attracted to a rose in the centre of the bed, not in bloom, 

 but growing with great vigour, its shoots offering a remarkable 

 contrast to the plants by which it was surrounded, in their 

 crimson purple tinge; upon this plant I set my mark, and the 

 following autumn removeil it to a pet situation. It did not 

 bloom in perfection the season after removal ; but when esta- 

 blished, it completely eclipsed all the dark roses known, and the 

 plant was so vigorous that it made shoots more than ten feet in 

 lougth in one season. 



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