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abundance of wood, and but very few flowers. 

 This rose often puts forth branches in one season 

 from eight to ten feet in length : if these are from 

 a dwarf, and are fastened to a wooden or iron 

 stake, and not shortened, the following season they 

 will form a pillar of beauty but rarely equalled. 

 Blairii, a rose not so much known as it deserves 

 to be, is a very distinct and unique variety, so 

 impatient of the knife, that if pruned at all se- 

 verely, it will scarcely put forth a flower: it is 

 perhaps better as a pillar rose, than grown in any 

 other mode, as it shoots ten or twelve feet in one 

 season, and its pendulous clusters of flowers which 

 are produced from those long shoots unshortened, 

 have a beautiful effect on a pillar. Beauty of 

 Billiard is, of all roses, the most glowing and 

 beautiful : its colour is described in the catalogue 

 as scarlet; but it is rather a fiery crimson, so 

 vivid, that it may be distinguished at an immense 

 distance. This rose also requires care in using the 

 knife ; the extreme tips of the branches may be 

 cut off, and some of them thinned out ; it will 

 then bloom in great perfection, but care must 

 always be taken in winter pruning to leave its 

 shoots nearly their full length. Becquet is a 

 pretty distinct dark crimson flower, very double 

 and well shaped. Belle Marie is a first-rate rose, 

 finely shaped, and a good show-rose. Belle Para- 

 bere is a very remarkable variety of inconceivable 

 luxuriance ; its flowers are very large : it will in 



