REMARKS ON THE PECULIARITIES OF ROSES, ETC. Ill 



tween the China tea-scented Noisette and Bourbons, fertilized with 

 the French, Provence and other summer roses, and also to the latter 

 being crossed with the former, the seeds from which produce hybrid 

 China roses. The character of the section is smooth shining foliage, 

 being sub-evergreen, branches long, luxuriant and flexible. They 

 give a long series of flowers, but not a secondary one. They do well 

 as standards, forming fine heads. They require to have a free supply 

 of manure over the surface of the roots both in autumn and spring, 

 and be kept moist when in bloom ; a covering of manure tends to 

 that ; in summer a covering of moss over the dung conceals it from 

 sight. They are well adapted for rose beds on lawns, or as dwarf 

 standards, and some of the strongest growing kinds as pillars. They 

 bloom abundantly, and require close cutting in when pruned. 



Climbing Roses. The Ayrshire. — It is considered by the most 

 eminent rose fanciers that this tribe had its origin from the Rosa 

 arvensis, the common rose of our English hedges, and has acquired 

 much additional vigour from the accidental impregnation. Shoots 

 of the single and semi-double white on some occasions grow in one 

 season from twenty to thirty feet long. They make fine pendant 

 heads when grown as standards. They are well adapted to train up 

 the stems of trees ; and to form undergrowth amongst trees, or cover 

 a bank, they are admirable, as one plant will soon cover a space of 

 fifty square yards. 



Ros.v sempervirens. The Evergreen Rose (Climbing). — The 

 origin of this class is the climbing wild rose of Italy, which has 

 single white flowers and foliage nearly evergreen. The flowers are 

 mostly small, not exceeding what is termed middle size; they are 

 produced in large clusters, or corymbs, of from ten to fifty blossoms 

 in each. The plants are of the easiest culture, flourishing in any 

 good soil, they are valuable for covering fences, walls, stems of trees, 

 as pillars or as standards, form a pretty object, also for spreading 

 over a bank, &c, and being nearly evergreen, increases their utility 

 and beauty. They are excellent for training as festoons. They 

 should be pruned at the end of February, and then only just shorten- 

 ing the ends of the shoots left; a portion should be cut out if the 

 shoots are very numerous. To cut those retained very far down 

 would induce but few new shoots to push, and they be so vigorous as 

 to grow to a great extent and usually such produce no bloom. Each 

 autumn a supply of manure to the surface should be pointed in. 



