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MUSK-SCENTED ROSES (ROSA MOSCHATA). 



The white musk-scented cluster rose is one of the oldest 

 inhabitants of the rose garden, and is known all over the 

 earth, where the rose has been cultivated, or its name been 

 heard. It is supposed that it is the famed rose of the Per- 

 sian poets. Although there are several varieties under this 

 head, very few of them, indeed, have that peculiar fragrance 

 which the genuine old species possesses. They require similar 

 treatment to the Bourbon and Noisette Roses, and, in fact, 

 fanciers have been, if possible, too minute to separate this 

 group from the Noisette Roses, merely because they are, in 

 some degree, musk-scented. 



Old musk cluster, yellowish white, expanded and semi-double, 

 blooms in immense clusters and finely scented 



Herbemonte, pure white, very large flower in fine clusters. 



Princess de Nassau, creamy white, perfectly double, very fra- 

 grant, and blooms in large clusters. 



Ranunculus, musk cluster, pure white, very double ; flowers 

 in very large clusters. 



CLIMBING ROSES THAT BLOOM ONLY ONCE IN THE 



SEASON. 



Under this head, we will have to place several roses from 

 very different countries, but all agreeing in habit and flower- 

 ing disposition. Our readers will now be fully impressed 

 with the knowledge that all roses of luxuriant growth require 

 copious nourishment. Such is the case with many of those 

 we are now about to describe ; but others of them will grow 

 and bloom most beautifully perfect even on the poorest of 

 soil, and are very capable of covering rock-work, a sterile 

 bank, or naked wall, or any disagreeable object, where it is 

 not convenient to excavate for the purpose of introducing 

 nutritious soils ; and several of them are of such a hardy 

 nature that they will withstand the utmost severity of our 

 Northern States; others are more delicate, and can only bear 

 the mild winters of a southern climate, where they richly 

 display both fbwers and foliage, and even retain their foliage 



