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twenty or thirty buds of such magnificent roses 

 as Senateur Vaise, Gloire de Santenay, General 

 Jacqueminot, Cardinal Patrizzi, Due de Rohan, 

 Franfois Lacharme, Emperor de Maroc, or, in- 

 deed, of any of the brilliant Hybrid Perpetual 

 roses, are inserted in the numerous shoots over the 

 surfiice of a large dome-shaped rose-tree in June, 

 in September many of them will give fine flowers, 

 and the following summer, wlien they bloom 

 simultaneously with the varieties they are budded 

 on — say Felicite, Perpetue — the effect will be 

 most magnificent. 



Evergreen roses, trained to tall pillars or suf- 

 fered to hang in festoons, are capable of most 

 fanciful decoration, as buds of very choice kinds 

 may be inserted at different points of view, so as 

 to have a charming effect. 



Raising Varieties from Seed. 



It is, I fear, almost hopeless to advise raising 

 roses of this family from seed ; they are for the 

 most part too double, and, the species being a 

 native of Italy, I fear that our cloudy skies are by 

 far too unfavourable. But how charming would 

 ije a rose of this family with crimson flowers, and 

 a tendency to bloom in autumn — in short, a Per- 

 petual Crimson Evergreen rose. To obtain this, 

 all lovers of roses ought at least to give the fol- 

 lowing experiment a fair trial : — Plant against 

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