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able," I replied, "for Dog Roses have great resemblance to each 

 other, and are always single." Great was his surprise, when I 

 convinced him that the Roses he had imported and cultivated 

 with so much care, were only suckers from the stocks on which 

 his imported Roses were budded. He had planted them out, 

 supposing they were on their own roots, and had not perceived 

 the necessity of keeping down the suckers. 



Tree Roses. The Tree Rose is a beautiful object when in 

 bloom. It is formed by inoculating the desired variety upon a 

 standard, some four or five feet in height, generally the Dog 

 Rose, as it is called in France, or the Eglantine. Many have 

 been imported from France, and succeed well the first or second 

 year ; but from some cause they soon die. Either the severity 

 of our winters, or our powerful summers' sun, causes their 

 death. 



New varieties are produced from seed raised from flowers, 

 which have been crossed with others of opposite characters ; 

 but none but amateurs will attempt this, so this mode of propa- 

 gation will not be dwelt upon. 



Of the diseases of the Rose, arid of the insects that infest it, 

 we shall have something to say in another place. 



GARDEN CLASSIFICATION OF ROSES. 



On the subject of Classification of Roses, there have been 

 much difficulty and confusion among amateurs ; and even 

 Rivers himself, one of the most correct of Rose amateurs in 

 England or France, remarks : " Within the last ten years, 

 how many plants have been named and unnamed, classed and 

 unclassed ! Professor A. placing it here, and Dr. B. placing it 

 there ! I can almost imagine Dame Nature laughing in her 

 sleeve, when our philosophers are thus puzzled. Well, so it is, 

 in a measure, with Roses ; a variety has often equal claims on 

 two classes. First impressions have placed it in one, and there, 

 rival amateurs should let it remain." 



We are pleased with Mr. Parsons' classification, as being 

 the most simple of any we have seen, and also as distinctive 



