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 CLIMBING EOSES. 



DIVISION I. 

 THE AYKSHIRE EOSE. 



(EOSA AEVENSIS HYBRIDA.) 



IT is the opinion of some cultivators, that the 

 varieties of the Ayrshire Eose have been origi- 

 nated from the Eosa arvensis, or creeping single 

 White Eose of our woods and hedges. But this 

 is contradicted by botanists, who assert that the 

 original Ayrshire Eose was raised in Scotland 

 from foreign rose seed : it may have been ; but to 

 judge from its habit, I feel no hesitation in assert- 

 ing that it is merely a seedling hybrid from our 

 Eosa arvensis, having acquired much additional 

 vigour, as all hybrid roses nearly invariably do, 

 from some accidental impregnation. Perhaps no 

 rose can be more luxuriant than this ; for the 

 Single Ayrshire, and that semi-double variety 

 known as the Double White, will often make 

 shoots in one season twenty or thirty feet in 

 length. Several of our prettiest varieties were 

 raised from seed by Mr. Martin of Eose Angle, 

 Dundee ; the Ayrshire Queen, the only dark 

 Ayrshire Hose known, was originated by myself, 

 in 1835, from the blush Ayrshire, impregnated 

 with the Tuscany Eose. But one seed germi- 

 nated ; and the plant produced has proved a com- 



