CULTURE. 73 



time at a loss what varieties to bud them with ; 

 for, be it remembered, all stout and old Rose-stocks 

 required to be worked with very strong-growing 

 sorts of roses, to take off the abundance of sap, 

 and keep them in a healthy state. At last, in a 

 mere freak of fancy, I had them budded with 

 some varieties of the Evergreen Rose (Rosa sem- 

 pervirens). They grew most luxuriantly; and, 

 after a year or two, not being trees adapted for 

 sale, they were planted in a sloping bank of 

 strong white clay, and left to grow and bloom as 

 nature dictated not a shoot was ever touched 

 with the pruning-knife, and they soon formed 

 themselves into beautiful dome-like trees. 



The annexed figure (p. 74) is a portrait of one of 

 these trees, now a well-known variety, the Felicite 

 Perpetue.* This tree is on a stem a trifle more 

 than two feet in height, and it has been these 

 two or three summers past a picture of beauty. 

 When in full bloom the ends of its shoots rest 

 on the ground, and then it forms a perfect dome 

 of roses ; nothing in Rose-culture can really be 

 more beautiful. It will be at once seen with 

 what facility such stout, short old Rose-stocks 

 can be found in any hedge ; they may be planted 

 in the kitchen garden, budded with the above- 

 mentioned sort, and, to give variety in colour, 

 with some of the following kinds, all varieties of 



* This figure and description are copied, by permission, from 

 the ' Florist,' for which I wrote it in 1851. 



