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Ainderground, and throw up suckers, which recommends them for a rose 

 hedge. This also renders them easy of multiplication by suckers : their general 

 habit is dwarf, and their spines are both numerous and well-pointed. 



1883. An interesting group of hybrids have been produced between the 

 damask perpetuals, to which Mr. Paul gives the name of Scotch perpetuals. 

 *' Among them the Stanwell is/' says Mr. Paul, "the only one really worth 

 attention. It is among the first to unfold its blossoms, flowering in May, 

 and throughout the summer and autumn, till arrested by frost : it is deli- 

 ciously fragrant. Some say it has the fragrance of attar of roses ; but it 

 -appears to me more to resemble the Proven9al : its flowers are rosy-black, 

 their centre often pink, large, double, and cupped ; of branching habits, and 

 raised at Stanwell." Under the head of Scotch roses, Mr. Paul gives a list 

 of seventy-six hybrids from the Stanwell and the Scotch perpetuals, ranging 

 from the pure white of Aimable €trangfere to the purple Countess of Kinnoul ; 

 from the yellow Mary Stuart to the straw-coloured Mrs. Hay, with many 

 marbled and striped varieties. 



1884. Ayrshire Rose. — The rapidity with which this rose covers a wall or 

 pillar, added to its intrinsic beauty, renders it invaluable to the gardener ; 

 indispensable, indeed, to him who would sing with the poet, — 



"Not a pine in my grove is there seen 

 But & woodbine entwines it around." 



Tor where its growth is encouraged, it cUmbs to the summit of the tallest trees, 

 from which its long graceful shoots hang in festoons. The Ayrshire seems to 

 have been first grown in the garden of the Earl of Loudon, at Loudon Castle, 

 Ayrshire. It soon got into the nurseries in Scotland, whence, in 1811, it was 

 transplanted to London by Mr. Ronalds, of Brentford. It was at first consi- 

 •dered a variety of It. arvensis, afterwards of the Evergreen rose, R. semper- 

 virens. It difi"ers in many respects from both ; its long slender branches grow 

 so rapidly as to throw out shoots thirty feet long in one season. R. arvensis 

 never grows with this rapidity, and its branches are stronger and thicker. 

 The Evergreen rose still less resembles the Ayrshire in these propex'ties. 



1S85. There is more than one tradition connected with the introduction of 

 this rose ; that which is most likely to be authentic being supported by Mr. 

 Reillj', who states, in his monograph in the Edinhi(,rgh Fhilosophical Magazine, 

 that the seeds from whence it was obtained were part of a packet received 

 from Canada, from which several plants were produced. Another'tradition 

 traces it to a Mr. Power, from Yorkshire, who brought the plant from some 

 gentleman's garden in that county. Whatever of truth there may be in either 

 of these accounts, it is pretty certain that no rose having the slightest re- 

 semblance to the Ayrshire has since been discovered on the American con- 

 tinent. It also appears that at different periods, two very distinct varieties 

 have been gi-own in the nurseries under the same name ; one being descended 

 from R. arvensis and the other from real Ayrshire, with very long slender 

 branches, so weak as to require support, being so tender and flexible as to 



