/b DECORATED CLIMBING ROSES. 



they will, with all the freshness of unassisted 

 nature, annually delight the eye of the lover of 

 flowers — those beautiful gifts of an ever bene- 

 ficent Creator ; and may I not add, that the con- 

 templative mind will see in these lovely pendant 

 roses the great charms of humility and gratitude 

 — they seek to 'abase' themselves, and their 

 beauty is ' exalted ; ' they re 3eive from the earth 

 all their benefits, and endeavour to cover and 

 adorn her with their luxuriance. 



Decorated CLiMBiNa Koses. 



A strange term, for can a rose-tree be deco- 

 rated ? Yes, and I must at once tell how it has 

 been done with these Evergreen Eoses — the most 

 vigorous and the most tractable of rose-stocks — 

 and how it may be easily practised. 



A few years since, a friend living at Weycliffe, 

 near Guildford, found the heavily-built brick 

 bridge leading over the railway to his house (this 

 is, however, in his grounds, so as to be private), 

 conspicuously ugly, and he wished it to be hidden 

 by evergreen climbing plants. As the carriage- 

 road ran over the bridge, the gravel of which it 

 was made did not seem to offer very happy 

 quarters for any plant but ivy, which was ob- 

 jected to as being too heavy. I then proposed 

 planting it with varieties of Eosa sempervirens, 

 or, as we ought always to call them, Evergreen 



