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pretty variety has been added. This 1 have 

 raised from Italian seed. It produces abundance 

 of flowers in large clusters, of a bright crimson 

 scarlet, nearly double, and, what is very rare 

 among climbing roses, they are very fragrant. I 

 have named this rose ' Sir John Sebright.' Sir 

 John was a great admirer of brilliant-coloured 

 climbing roses. 



A family of climbing roses has been lately intro- 

 duced from North America ; we owe this group 

 to Kosa rubifolia, the Bramble-leaved or Prairie 

 Eose. A Mr. Feast, nurseryman at Baltimore, 

 has been the originator of a few varieties, one of 

 which is described as being an autumnal bloomer. 

 The Queen of the Prairies is one of the best of these 

 roses, producing its flowers, which are rather flat, 

 and regularly imbricated, in large clusters ; these 

 are of a bright rose-colour, streaked with white ; 

 its foliage is large, and habit very robust ; it re- 

 quires a very dry season ; many varieties of this 

 race have within these few years been introduced 

 and advertised under fine-sounding names. I 

 will dismiss them at once by saying, they are 

 none of them worthy of cultivation. 



Raising VaHeties from Seed. 



Among climbing roses but few can be found that 

 will bear seed in this country, the Ayrshire Roses 

 excepted, from some of which it is probable that 



