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and perhaps many other high-sounding names ; it ia 

 a beautiful cream-white, with perfect shaped flowers, 

 and makes a lovely rock-work or pillar rose ; but is 

 rather delicate for our severe winters. 



Grraulhie, pure white, cup form in large clusters, very double, 

 a strong grower and free bloomer 



Grevillia, or seven sisters, is a very curious rose, flowered the 

 first time with us in June, 1830. It is of the Mul- 

 tiflora variety, and is a native of China; growth free 

 and luxuriant ; leaves large and deeply nerved ; 

 flowers in large clusters, almost every eye of the 

 wood of last year producing one cluster, having on it 

 from eight to twenty roses, according to the state of 

 the plant, each rose expanding differently in colour or 

 shade. Many suppose that they expand all of the 

 same colour, and change afterwards. Thi? is not the 

 case. We have seen them white, pink, red, purple, 

 and various other shades when the bloom expanded ; 

 and on two clusters we have observed twenty-two dis- 

 tinct shades of colour. In fact, it is a complete non- 

 descript, having roses single, semi-double, and double, 

 large and small, and every colour between white and 

 purple, forming, in every garden where it is planted, a 

 wonder of the vegetable world. 



Multiflora, beautiful pink, very compact and double; it is 

 rather tender for this latitude. Celebrated as being 

 the first climbing rose that was planted in or about 

 Philadelphia, and was so much admired that twenty 

 dollars were frequently given foK.a single plant. 



alba, similar to the former, but lighter in colour, 



though not a pure white. 



Laure de Voust, changeable pale blush, pink or 



white, very compact, of the most perfect form, and a 

 profuse bloomer, of rampant growth, and more hardy 

 than the two preceding; it is one of the most beauti- 

 ful and elegant of climbing roses, with rather large 

 flowers and luxuriant foliage. 

 Prairie Rose ; a few elegant sorts have been grown from this 

 single-flowered native rose : all are of rapid growth 

 and partaking of the parent in blooming later than 

 roses generally that flower only once in the season* 

 they are admirably adapted for covering arbours, rock 



