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scarcely be too much left to themselves. Some require 

 walls, and so must be trained, but they will grow 

 beautifully against a tree, or over bushes. The Rosa 

 Brunonii is described as growing in India, with 'its 

 white flowers appearing on the largest trees, and filling 

 the air with a powerful scent for long distances,' and 

 so it is grown in perfection at Kew, rambling over 

 bushes ; and I once had on my lawn a very large old 

 box-bush, of little beauty either in shape or colour, but 

 allowed to remain because from the centre grew an old 

 Ayrshire rose, which in summer clothed the box-tree 

 with wonderful beauty. When the rose died I cut the 

 box down. And even the finest hybrid roses rejoice in 

 this treatment, and they are so easily propagated that 

 there is no difficulty in getting a good stock of plants, 

 which may be treated in many different ways. Long 

 cuttings from this year's ripened wood planted deep in 

 the open ground in November will often produce plants 

 that will flower the following year. 



I said that there was no real English name for the 

 rose, and it is remarkable that it is the same in Eastern 

 countries — they also have no native name for it. So 

 Sir Dietrich Brandis stated at the Eose Conference : — 



' The rose has no true Sanscrit name, which jjointed to the 

 fact that roses which had been cultivated by the Mohammedans 

 for centuries previously were first introduced by tbeni into 



