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most of them are rapid growers, with long, 
flexible shoots; smooth, luxuriant foliage; 
large, rather numerous, thorns; globular or 
cup-shaped flowers, which are freely produced 
in their season. Those of vigorous growth, 
and most of them are such, require but little 
pruning. Many of them make beautiful Pillar. 
Roses and can be used as climbers in posi- 
tions where extremely rapid growth is not 
required; in such places they make the best 
summer climbers that we have. 
“It is time, I think, for some alterations 
in the nomenclature and classification of the 
rose. When summer roses—roses, that is, 
which bloom but once—were almost the only 
varieties grown, and when hybridizers found 
a splendid market for novelties in any quan- 
tities, new always, and distinct zz name, the 
subdivisions yet remaining in some of our 
catalogues were interesting, no doubt, to 
our forefathers, and more intelligible, let us 
hope, than they are to us. Let us believe 
that it was patent to their shrewder sense 
why pink roses were called Albas, and roses 
whose hues were white and lemon were de- 
scribed as Damask. Let us suppose that 
they could distinguish at any distance the 
Gallica from the Provence Rose, and that 
when they heard the words Hybrid China, 
