78 CLIMBING ROSES, &C. {April. 



CLIMBING ROSES THAT BLOOM ONLY ONCE IN THE 

 SEASON. 



Under this head we will have to place several roses from 

 very different countries, but all agreeing in habit and 

 flowering disposition. Our readers will now be fully im- 

 pressed with the knowledge that all roses of luxuriant 

 growth require copious nourishment. Such is the case 

 with many of those we are now about to describe ; but 

 others of them will grow and bloom most beautifully perfect 

 even on the poorest of soil, and are very capable of cover- 

 ing rock-work, a sterile bank, or naked wall, or any disa- 

 greeable object, where it is not convenient to excavate for 

 the purpose of introducing nutritious soils ; and several of 

 them are of such a hardy nature, that they will withstand 

 the utmost severity of our northern states ; others are more 

 delicate, and can only bear the mild winters of a southern 

 climate, where they richly display both flowers and foliage, 

 and even retain their foliage during winter, and are ever- 

 greens for screening disagreeable objects or covering ar- 

 bours. The best of the united groups are 



(r) * Ayrshire tea scented, or Rosa Ruga, delicate blush, 

 flowers very compact and perfectly double ; it is a 

 free grower and an excellent pillar rose, with a de- 

 lightful fragrance. There are several others of the 

 Ayrshire Rose, under very tempting names, such 

 as Double Crimson, Mottled, Eclipse, Ayrshire 

 Queen, Elegans, &c. These may do for those who 

 wish a multiplicity of names ; but will not take with 

 our floral public, who wish every plant to have some 

 merit as well as a name to recommend it. 



Boursalt, pink or reddish pink, semi-double, profuse flower- 

 ing, and is our earliest rose is a free grower, and 

 of the most hardy nature ; in fact, all the Boursalts 

 are .equally hardy, and withstand the severest cold. 



Boursalt, white, Rose de Lisle, Boursalt Florida, Calypso, 

 Pompone Florida, and Bengal Florida, &c., for it 



* Those marked thus (r) will do admirably for rock-work. 



