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Double Sweet Briar, wLicli in strong soils often 

 formed itself into a fine standard tree. 



In the 'front court' of my father's garden, I 

 remember two fine tree-roses, one the Double 

 Apple-bearing, tlie other the Double Sweet Briar ; 

 they had large heads many feet through, and 

 stems gnarled and knotted, measuring two feet 

 in circumference ; their beauty, when their large 

 heads were covered with flowers, was most striking, 

 and the polite stage-coachmen of those days used 

 to pull up to allow their passengers to have a 

 good look at those glorious trees — one almost 

 j'e.^rets that such pleasant times are gone for ever. 

 The trees were destroyed by a heavy fall of snow 

 in the autumn before they had shed their leaves, 

 which, lodging on the branches, crushed them to 

 the ground, so that they never recovered. Some 

 old specimens of the Double Apple-bearing rose 

 still exist here : one has a stem nearly eighteen 

 inches in circumference, and is covered with ivy 

 climbing up its stem. 



To return from this digression, I have only to 

 recommend General Jacqueminot ; a fine, large, 

 vigorous-growing rose, and, like Chenedole, well 

 adapted for a pillar rose, and Triomphe de Bayeux, 

 a white Hybrid China rose, even more vigorous 

 in its habits than Chenedole, and, like many of 

 the roses of this family, only adapted for a large 

 standard or a pillar rose, now that we have our 



