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the growth is very rapid, making ten to twenty 

 feet in a season. Madame d^Arhlay^ or "Wells 

 White Climber, has been highly extolled ; in 

 growth it is the giant of climbers, for strength 

 and rapidity excelling any that I have seen ; the 

 foliage is also very strong, partaking in that re- 

 spect of the Bourbon family. Its flowers are pure 

 white, like the preceding, and produced in very 

 large bunches. It is of a very hardy nature, and 

 will withstand severe cold without being the least 

 afiected. 



Ruse Blanclie^ or Bengalensis Scandens, is ap- 

 parently a hybrid between some of the Semper- 

 virens and Tea family ; its very large flowers, 

 about three and a half inches in diameter, perfectly 

 double, of a waxy blush color delicately suffused 

 with rose and white, are objects of great attraction, 

 and admired wherever seen ; it is, moreover, a very 

 early rose. Whoever has visited the celebrated 

 Bartram Garden,"^ near this city, about the end of 

 May or first of June, must have been struck with 

 its beauty there, spreading nearly over the whole 

 side of the dwelling, and covered with thousands 

 of pendulous blushing beauties. The variety of 

 names under which it is cultivated (even by indi- 



^ Now Bartram Hall, the property of A. M. Eastvrick, Est|. 



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