THE SCOTCH ROSE. 17 



The flowers are small and globular; many of them, as they hang on the hush, 

 looking like little balls. I recollect being much struck with a stand of these 

 Roses brought to one of the Horticultural exhibitions in May. The season 

 was an early and a genial one, and they were produced in great beauty. 



Scotch Roses are in character planted as a hedge round a Rosarium, where 

 such may be required : a bank of Scotch Roses I should also conceive to produce 

 a good effect. They like a pure air — and indeed what Roses do not ? — but will 

 grow almost anywhere.* 



When plants of the Scotch Rose become established in the soil, the stems 

 push laterally under ground, often rising to the surface at a considerable distance 

 from the plant. These are called suckers, and are separated from the mother 

 plant to form new plants ; and thus is the Scotch Rose propagated. It is not 

 easy to confound this with any other group, the spines are so thickly set on the 

 stems. The growth is dwarf. The flowers are mostly small, double, and 

 globular in form, possessed of a peculiarly grateful fragrance. The plants 

 resemble each other so nearly in every respect, that it seems only necessary to 

 affix the colours. 



There are some hybrids of this group well worthy of cultivation : the Perpetual 

 Scotch and Sfanwell, which bloom both in summer and autumn, are the most 

 remarkable. 



1. Acasto ; flowers blush purple. 



2. Adelaide ; flowers red, large. 



3. Aimable 'Etrangere; (Hybrid) flowers pure white. 



4. Aimable Rosette ; flowers red or rose. 



5. Alemina; flowers light purple, striped. 



6. Ambuchelet; flowers rosy lilac. 



7. Apollo ; flowers purplish red. 



8. Argo ; flowers light red. 



9. Auterresea ; flowers blush purple marbled. 



10. iEsop ; flowers red and purple striped. 



11. Athol; flowers blush. 



12. Bellona ; flowers light red. 



13. Blanda; flowers pale red marbled. 



14. Calista ; flowers white. 



15. Countess of Breadalbane ; flowers rosy purple. 



16. Countess of Glasgow; flowers deep purple. 



17. Countess of Kinnoul ; flowers purple. 



18. Countess of Strathallan ; see Viscountess of Strathallan. 



19. Cupid; flowers purple. 



* I recollect once meeting with a plant at Garth Point, North Wales, which had fastened 

 itself in the crevice of a bare rock, where it not only lived, but flourished. It was solitary \ no 

 plant disputed its position. 



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