140 DESCRIPTION OP THE ROSE. 



(from whence it is immediately nourished), the shoots will 

 be then strong, and able to bear out the flowers if they be 

 not too many, which may be prevented by nipping off the 

 smallest buds for flowers, leaving only such a number of 

 the fairest as the tree may be able to bring to perfection ; 

 which tree should stand something shadowed, and not too 

 much in the heat of the sun, and in a standard by itself, 

 rather than under a wall. These rules being observed, 

 we may expect to enjoy the full delight of these beautiful 

 roses, as I myself have often done by my own practice in 

 divers trees so handled, which have yearly borne store of 

 fair flowers, when those that were natural, notwithstand- 

 ing all the helps I could use, have not brought forth one 

 that was kindly, but all of them either broken, or, as it 

 were, blasted.' " 



Rosa Rubignosa. This is the Eglantine of the poets, 

 celebrated in song by bards known and unknown to fame, 

 from Milton down to the rustic rhymer offering the trib- 

 ute of his untutored Muse to the charms of sonre vil- 

 lage beauty. 



Nothing is easier than its cultivation ; but, to our mind, 

 it loses half its attraction when transplanted from its 



