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of beauty ; I have never seen anything in climb- 

 ing roses to equal it. On another bank they are 

 gradually mounting to the tops of the trees ; none 

 of them have ever been pruned. Ayrshire roses, 

 as articles of decoration in places unfitted for 

 other ornamental climbers, are worthy of much 

 more attention than they have hitherto received. 



The following extract from the * Dundee Courier ' 

 of July 11, 1837, will give some idea how capable 

 these roses are of making even a wilderness a scene 

 of beauty : 



' Some years ago a sand pit at Ellangowan was 

 filled up with rubbish found in digging a well. 

 Over this a piece of rock was formed for the 

 growth of plants which prefer such situations, 

 and amongst them were planted some half-dozen 

 plants of the Double Ayrshire Rose, raised in this 

 neighbourhood about ten years ago. These roses 

 now most completely cover the whole ground, a 

 space of thirty feet by twenty. At present they 

 are in full bloom, showing probably not less than 

 ten thousand roses in this small space.' 



CLIMBING ROSES. 



DIVISION II. 

 ROSA MULTIFLOKA. 



THE Rosa multiflora, or many-flowered rose, is 

 a native of Japan, from whence it was brought by 



