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against a west wall than as a dwarf ; but I am 

 now also growing it as a single bush, having 

 seen its splendid effect in this form in the gar- 

 den at Arborfield Hall last year, where a plant, 

 four or five feet high and as many through, 

 was a sheet of bloom last September. From 

 June to November it is always in flower here ; 

 and when the window below which it grows is 

 thrown open, the whole room is filled with its 

 scent. Next in order I should place the noble 

 light orange Madame JRavary. Vigorous in 

 growth and in perpetual bloom, its colour 

 varies from rich orange-fawn deeper in the 

 centre, to salmon-white after it opens. The 

 pink Killarney, in colour resembling the inside 

 of some of those tender pink shells of tropic 

 seas, with long pointed buds, large and rather 

 loose flowers, and handsome brown shoots, is 

 an admirable contrast to Madame Ravary. It 

 is extremely hardy ; and besides many speci- 

 mens of it in my Rose beds, one among some 

 choice shrubs has grown in four years into a 

 tall bush, its pink flowers showing up delight- 

 fully against the blue-green foliage of Spiraea 



