54 UOSES. [March. 



Sweet Brier, single pink. 



celestial, blush, fine double flowered. 



Swiss Rose, large pink, expanded, and profusely double. 



Tuscany, see Black Tuscany. 



Unique or white Provins, pure white, very large globular, 



and double, superb. 

 Unique striped, often is perfectly white, and merely a sport 



from the former. 



Violatum, violet purple, expanded and double. 

 Vandal carmine, compact, imbricated, and double. 



We mention these as fine ; but among several thousand 

 cultivated varieties of the garden rose, there must be many 

 of equal, if not surpassing beauty; of Rosa spinosissima, 

 there are about five hundred varieties ; Rosa gallica, two 

 hundred ; R. centifolia, one hundred and fifty ; R . damas- 

 cene, above one hundred ; R. alba, fifty ; j?. rubigindsa, 

 thirty ; and of various sorts above eleven hundred. In 

 several individual collections of Europe, there are culti- 

 vated above fifteen hundred species, sub-species, and vari- 

 eties. 



When planted, they are too frequently crowded indiscri- 

 minately among other shrubs, which prevents them having 

 the effect they would have if planted singly or grouped. 

 They vary in size in different sorts from one to ten feet. 

 When planted in the latter method, they should be assimi- 

 lated in size of leaves and manner of growth, with the 

 greatest variation of flower ; or if planted in small patches, 

 each distinct in colour, will have a very picturesque effect. 

 Another desirable and fanciful method, is to plant them in 

 figures, with edgings of wire, willow, or any other sub- 

 stitute, in imitation of basket work, which is called " bas- 

 kets of roses ;" the ground enclosed in the basket margin 

 to be made convex, which will present a greater surface to 

 the eye ; the strong shoots to be layered, or kept down by 

 pegs in the ground, having the points of the shoots, only to 

 appear above the soil, which should be covered with moss. 

 With this treatment, in a few years the whole surface of 

 the basket will be covered with rose buds and leaves, of 

 one or various sorts. If two or three of the larger growing 

 sorts are taken, such as Moss or Provins, they may be 

 trained so as to cover a surface of several square yards. 



