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but think that the many failures in grow- 

 ing this singularly charming Rose out of 

 doors in England are due to faults of posi- 

 tion and of pruning. It needs a position 

 sheltered from north and east, on an extremely 

 dry border. And any one who has attempted 

 to prune it may be thankful to remember that 

 it resents the knife ; for it is without excep- 

 tion the most cruelly prickly, thorny Rose I 

 know every dainty twig, every shiny leaf 

 being armed with ferocious fish-hooks. The 

 flowers are borne singly on the well-ripened 

 branchlets of last year's growth ; so that 

 nothing save actually dead wood should be 

 removed ; and as the Rose likes best to be 

 left to follow its own wayward course, we 

 must allow it, as far as is practicable, to do 

 so, if we wish it to succeed. 



Beyond Captain Christy a vigorous plant 

 of William Allen Richardson against the 

 porch produces about three crops of its vivid 

 orange flowers in the year. And though it is 

 a Rose of singularly dirty habits, attracting 

 every vile form of blight and caterpillar, I 



