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"dwarf maidens." Perhaps a worthier fate will 

 make some of .them the parents of more beautiful 

 roses than Gruss an Teplitz, and of equally beautiful 

 growth. 



Our own wild Rosa arvensts, parent of all the Ayr- 

 shires, and aunt of the pillar and pergola ramblers 

 that make our gardens exquisite in the month of roses, 

 has won its triumphs by constancy and moderation 

 in its variations. The nieces of our field-rose are the 

 daughters of R. multiflora. The Crimson Rambler is 

 sixteen years old, and deservedly as popular as ever 

 where the pillar or the pergola is a feature of the 

 flower-garden. Almost as brilliant a crimson, but 

 with open single blossoms showing the golden 

 stamens, Leuchstern covers itself assiduously with 

 clusters from head to foot, and strikes the eye as 

 powerfully as Hiawatha, not of the same strain, but 

 aptly associated with these crimson glories. Nor 

 must H61ene be omitted, one of the best of these 

 climbing roses, neither single nor double, a cheery 

 grower, and a multitudinous bloomer. The others 

 are wellnigh legion. Let us mention two more 

 Euphrosyne and Psyche, both pink, scented, prolific, 

 Psyche yielding a little in depth of colour and clear- 

 ness of scent, but none in generosity of bloom. 

 Felicite Perpetue" comes of another species of the 

 same division, and adds to the charm of its blush 

 clusters a glossier leaf that proclaims it an evergreen. 

 Then what if, having exhausted the crimson and 

 pink glories of our pergola, we find a rose throwing 

 clusters of open, pale cream, clematis-like blossoms 

 far along its appointed sphere of influence? It is 

 pure and simple wild Arvensis herself, more than 



