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fell prone from our rocking-horse (a nuptial grey), and 

 broke her bridal nose. The Banksian Rose is indeed 



"A miniature of loveliness, all grace 

 Summed up and closed in little ; " 



and both the Yellow and White varieties — the latter having 

 a sweet perfume, as though it had just returned from a visit 

 to the Violet — should be in every collection of mural Roses. 

 The plants should be on their own roots, and those roots 

 should be well protected during the winter months. It 

 cannot be warranted perfectly hardy, but with careful 

 mulching there is scarcely one frost in a lifetime which will 

 kill it. It may be injured even to the ground, but it will 

 come up again with wondrous rapidity. A tree of mine, 

 which half covered my house, perished in 1860-61, but it 

 was not sufficiently guarded, because I thought it safe ; and 

 *' 'Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have 

 loved at all." 



Under favourable circumstances, the growth of this Rose 

 is most luxuriant. A French writer on Roses tells us of a 

 tree at Toulon which covered a wall 75 feet in breadth and 

 15 to 18 in height, and which had fifty thousand flowers in 

 simultaneous bloom ; and specimens may be seen in our 

 own gardens and conservatories which repress any unbe- 



