80 DECORATED CLIMBING^ ROSES. 



twenty or thirty buds of such magnificent roses 

 as Senateur Vaise, Grloire de Santenay, General 

 Jacqueminot, Cardinal Patrizzi, Due de Rohan, 

 Franpois Lacharme, Empereur de Maroc, or, in- 

 deed, of any of the brilliant Hybrid Perpetual 

 roses, are inserted in the numerous shoots over, the 

 surface of a large dome-shaped rose-tree in June, 

 in September many of them will give fine flowers, 

 and the following summer, when they bloom 

 simultaneously with the varieties they are budded 

 on say Felicite, Perpetue the effect will be 

 most magnificent. 



. Evergreen roses, trained to tall pillars or suf- 

 fered to hang in festoons, are capable of most 

 fanciful decoration, as buds of very choice kinds 

 may be inserted at different points of view, so as 

 to have a charming effect. 



Raising Varieties from Seed, 



It is, I fear, almost hopeless to advise raising 

 roses of this family from seed : they are for the 

 most part too double, and, the species being a 

 native of Italy, I fear that our cloudy skies are by 

 far too unfavourable. But how charming would 

 be a rose of this family with crimson flowers, and 

 a tendency to bloom in autumn in short, a Per- 

 petual Crimson Evergreen rose. To obtain this, 

 all lovers of roses ought at least to give the fol- 

 lowing experiment a fair trial: Plant against 



