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budded upon tall standard Briars, eight to nine 
feet in height. No pruning (further than reducing 
their size when overgrown) is necessary. 
Bennett's Seedling (Bennett, 1840): pure white, small flowers, 
blooms in immense large clusters; beautiful as climbing or 
weeping Rose ; wig. 
Dundee Rambler (Martin): white, tinged with pink, very 
vigorous ; vq. 
Myrrh-scented: white, tinged with pink, pretty, and very 
fragrant ; vig. 
(Queen of the Belgians: creamy white, thick petals, large and 
double ; wig. 
Ruga: pale flesh, very fragrant and beautiful, double, free 
blooming ; vig. 
Splendens: white tinged with pink, very pretty ; vig. 
Thoresbyana (Bennett, 1840): see Bennett’s Seedling. 
HYBRID OF AYRSHIRE. 
Madame Viviand-Morel (Schwartz, 1883): carmine-rose colour, 
tinted with cherry-red, reverse of the petals violet-white, of medium 
size, blooming in clusters, climbing habit; a seedling from Cheshunt 
Hybrid, and of an Ayrshire ; vig. 
THE MULTIFLORA ROSE. 
(Rosa multiflora.) 
The Multiflora Rose was introduced from China 
in 1804. From the original type some twenty or 
thirty varieties have sprung; out of these can be 
selected three excellent and distinct, Roses, being all 
that are desirable from this group. 
De La Griffere : deep rose colour, changing to blush, double ; 
VL. 
gold Davoust » pink and lilac blush, blooms in immense large 
clusters; the most beautiful of all climbing Roses ; vig. 
Russelliana: rose colour, changing to lilac, flowers of medium 
size ; a distinct and pretty Rose ; vig. 
