22 EOSES THAT BLOOM IX JUNE. 



deed, this rose has no compeer ; it produces its 

 flowers single, semidouble and double, and in sucli 

 variety of shade and color, that there are rarely 

 two alike. An east or northeast situation suits it 

 best; otherwise the effect of its variety is greatly 

 diminished by the direct rays of the sun. It re- 

 quires a dry sheltered spot. Laure Davoust is the 

 climax of perfection in this family ; with all the 

 aid of the imagination, its beauty on a well-grown 

 plant cannot be pictured. The flowers are of va- 

 rious shades of color, from white to a lovely deep 

 pink, perfect in form ; the clusters are iuimense, 

 and produced from almost every eye of the strong 

 wood of the preceding year ; it is of very strong 

 growth, making shoots of twenty feet in one 

 season, with very luxuriant foliage, and is more 

 hardy than the three former. For covering out- 

 buildings, verandas, columns, temples, &c., it has 

 no superior. Husselliana, Scarlet Grevillia, Rus- 

 seirs Cottage Rose, Cottage Rose, and I believe it 

 is sold under some other titles besides, is con- 

 siderably hybridized, but not so as to lose its cha- 

 racter as a pillar rose. I have pillars of it twenty 

 feet high, forming, during the month of June, a 

 very attractive object, having a profusion of 

 flowers of the richest shades of crimson ; many of 

 tbem being striped with white. From the base to 



