138 A BOOK ABOUT ROSES. 



and made shoots 10 feet in leilgth in the 

 summer after planting, subsequently covering 

 a large space on a wall 18 feet high, blooming 

 even earlier than Gloire de Dijon, and giving me 

 some perfect flowers as late as the end of Novem- 

 ber. But the winter of 1870-71 all but destroyed 

 it; indeed, it seemed as though the sap were 

 frozen down to the parent stock (Hybrid Bourbon 

 Celine, the best foster-nurse for this variety), and 

 it was only in midsummer that a new growth up- 

 rose, just where the Rose had been budded, and 

 saved the tree from transportation to the bonfire. 

 Nor can I say in this case, as in that of Marechal 

 Niel, that careful protection will preserve, because 

 the growth is so exuberant, and the young wood 

 so tender, that it is much more quickly and ser- 

 iously injured by frost. But I am speaking, it 

 must be remembered, of a garden in Nottingham- 

 shire, lying low, near water, and therefore specially 

 exposed to peril ; and I do not see why, in the 

 south and west, this charming Rose should not suc- 

 ceed out of doors.* Even here, as I have not a 



* I find the following evidence, in corroboration of my belief, in 

 that prettiest catalogue of pretty things, ' Wheeler's Little Book for 

 1872:' — 



" Climbing Devonie^isis Rose. — It may be interesting to know that 

 this most beautiful of all light-colored Climbing Roses, so successfully 

 and universally cultivated in the neighborhood of Bath, is one of the 

 most vigorous and robust growth, making shoots from established 



