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and the MARCHIONESS OP LANSDOWNE, are of a pale straw 

 or sulphur color. The YELLOW SCOTCH is of a deeper 

 yellow tint. FLORA, DAPHNE, EREBUS, VENUS, and the 

 COUNTESS OF GLASGOW, are of deep shades of rose and 

 crimson. 



"Scotch roses, when grown into beds and clumps as 

 dwarfs, are beautiful ; and in early seasons they will bloom 

 nearly a fortnight before the other summer roses make 

 their appearance. This, of course, makes them desirable 

 appendages to the flower-garden. They bear seed pro- 

 fusely ; and raising new varieties from seed will be found 

 a most interesting employment. To do this, all that is 

 required is to sow the seed as soon as ripe, in October, in 

 pots or beds of fine earth, covering it with nearly an inch 

 of mould : the succeeding spring they will come up, and 

 bloom in perfection the season following. 



" The aim should be to obtain varieties with large and 

 very double crimson flowers: this can only be done by 

 slightly hybridizing; and to effect this it will be necessary 

 to have a plant or two of the Tuscany Rose trained to a 

 south wall, so that their flowers are expanded at the same 

 time as the Scotch roses in the open borders : unless thus 

 forced, they will be too late. Any dark-red varieties of 

 the Scotch roses, such as Venus, Erebus, or Flora, should 

 be planted separately from others, and their flowers fertil- 

 ized with the above French Rose. Some very original 



