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it is not wortli culture. Red or Pinh is the oldest 

 variety, with flowers only semidouble ; the color 

 is pretty, and its profusion, at a distance, make up 

 for deficiency of petals. The species of Eosa Al- 

 pina is a native of the Alps, where its scrubby 

 habit has little affinity to the rampant growers 

 now described. They should have, wherever 

 planted, plenty of space allotted for them ; for, 

 after being one or two years established, they will 

 make shoots ten or twelve feet long. In pruning, 

 the oldest wood should be cut out, merely to keep 

 the branches from being too crowded ; the flowers 

 are produced from the wood of the preceding year. 

 They will grow freely in any soil or situation, and 

 will bear with impunity the severest winters of 

 the Xorthern States. 



K S A S E M P E Pt Y I R E X S . 



THE EVERGREEN ROSE. 



This- rose and its varieties, although very 

 popular in France and England, lose much of the 

 character implied by the name when cultivated in 

 this part of the United States, where they become 

 deciduous, losing their foliage on the approach of 



