CULTURAL DIRECTIONS 
FOR 
THE ROSE. 
Part I. 
HERE is no flower so well adapted to our 
changeable climate as the Rose, and certainly 
none with equal beauty possessing so many valu- 
able properties. In the Rose may be found almost 
every shade of colour, endless varieties of form, 
size, etc., a delicious fragrance not to be met with 
in any other flower, considerable diversity of habit, 
and a hardiness of constitution that admits of its 
adaptation to every purpose for which it may be 
required in the flower garden. 
To contrast the wonderful difference existing in 
the habit and character of Roses, would alone open 
a subject for long contemplation. Take for instance 
the miniature China or Fairy Roses, which grow 
only a few inches in height, and compare them 
with the rambling Ayrshire and other climbing 
Roses, which often attain a height of twenty to thirty 
feet ; the characteristic distinctions between the 
Moss and the Gallica Roses, the Tea-scented and 
the Hybrid Perpetual, the summer and the autum- 
nal; the variations in form, colour, and size to be 
met with in each of these families are alike equally 
