146 DESCRIPTION OF THE ROSE. 



Most of the varieties of the Evergreen Rose now most 

 in esteem were originated in the gardens of Neuilly, near 

 Paris, by M. Jacques, gardener to King Louis Philippe. 

 One or two are crossed with the Musk Rose ; whence they 

 acquire a fragrance in which their own race is deficient. 

 BANKSLEFLORA is one of these. It has small double 

 white flowers. FELICITB PERPETUEE, in spite of its pre- 

 posterous name, is one of the most beautiful of climbing 

 roses ; and trained as it sometimes is in European gardens, 

 drooping in graceful festoons from pillar to pillar on sup - 

 porting wires, or mantling some unsightly dead trunk 

 with its foliage of shining green and its countless clusters 

 of creamy white flowers, it forms one of the most attrac- 

 tive objects imaginable. Thin out its shoots ; but do not 

 prune them, since, if they are much shortened, they will 

 yield no flowers whatever. Give it a rich soil, with au- 

 tumnal top-dressing of manure ; a treatment good for the 

 whole group, and, indeed, for all climbing roses. DONISTA 

 MARIA has pure white flowers. Its growth is less vigor- 

 ous than others, its foliage light green, and it blooms in 

 large clusters. MYRIANTHES RENONCULE has flowers of 

 a pale peach-color, drooping in large clusters, and in form 

 resembling a double ranunculus. ROSA PLENA is of a 

 bright flesh-color, large and double. PRINCESSE MARIE is 



