276 MY GARDEN. 



Noisette roses (fig. 562) propagate easily from cuttings. 

 I did not know what a Banksian Rose (fig. 563) really was till 

 I saw it in flower at Florence, where both the yellow and white 



FIG. 562. White Noisette Rose. 



FIG. 563. Yellow ]>anksian Rose. 



varieties cover extensive surfaces. When they put forth their flowers 

 in bunches with thousands of blossoms, there is hardly anything more 

 beautiful to be seen. In this country they are apt to be killed down 

 even when the stems are as thick as the wrist during severe 

 winters. 



The Macartney roses produce a fine effect against a wall in 

 summer, when their fine glossy foliage and their single flowers covered 

 with bees is a glorious sight. I prefer the single to the double 

 Macartney, which frequently does not open its flowers well. A single 

 plant suffices, but neither have lived with me at Wallington. 



"About us thus, 



Of sempiternal roses, bending wreathed 

 Those garlands twain ; and to the innermost 

 E'en thus the external answer'd." DANTE, Paradise. 



There is another fine group of roses, which are more beautiful and, 

 as it were, more refined than the large Hybrid Perpetuals ; namely, the 

 Tea roses. They are delicate, and are liable to be killed to the ground 

 in severe winters if the gardener omits to protect them. Mr. Wood 

 has marked for me at least forty-five varieties which he thinks necessary, 

 and we have probably two or three dozen kinds always in cultivation. 

 Some never grow, as the Vicomtesse de Gazes. Homere appears to 

 be much hardier, and is easily forced in early spring, yielding abundance 



