5^6 A YEAR IN A LANCASHIRE GARDEN. 



effective than anything I have. One is Boule de 

 Nantes, the other an old summer Rose, the name 

 of which I do not know, but which, when fully out, 

 much resembles the Comtesse de Jaucourt They 

 are not trained in any way, and I find, measuring 

 round their heads, that one has a circumference of 

 12 feet, and the other of \2\ feet. In the South of 

 England it is no doubt different, but for us these 

 are large dimensions ; and certainly nothing I now 

 get from the nursery gardens seems inclined to 

 attain to half the size. 



There is one Rose in my garden which flourishes 

 abundantly, but which is the only Rose, of which I 

 should decline to give a cutting. It is so ugly that 

 it is worth nothing, except as a curiosity ; and if it 

 ceased to be a curiosity it would be quite valueless. 

 It is a green Rose. I got a small plant from Bal- 

 timore, in America, some years ago, and I find 

 it perfectly hardy. It flowers very freely, and all 

 through the summer ; the bud is a perfect Rose 

 bud in appearance, but the open flower shows that 

 the Rose is of monstrous and not natural growth ; 

 the petals are, it seems to me, no real petals at all, 

 but an expansion of the green heart, which often 

 appears in Roses, and which has here been so cul- 

 tivated as to take the place of the natural Rose. 



