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cold spring and the rapid transition to hot weather. 

 William the Fourth is the largest white pure 

 Scotch rose known; a luxuriant grower, and a 

 good variety. Venus is an excellent dark rose, 

 with very double flowers and distinct character. 



Scotch roses may be grown as standards, and 

 the yellow, and one or two of the more robust 

 varieties, made good heads ; but in general they 

 form a round and lumpish tree, in ill accordance 

 with good taste : when grown in beds or clumps, 

 as dwarfs, they are beautiful, and in early seasons 

 they will bloom nearly a fortnight before the other 

 summer roses make their appearance; this, of 

 course, makes them desirable appendages to the 

 flower-garden. They bear seed profusely; and 

 raising new varieties from seed will be found a 

 most interesting employment. To do this, all that 

 is required is to sow the seed as soon as ripe, in 

 October, in pots or beds of fine earth, covering it 

 with nearly one inch of mould; the succeeding 

 spring they will come up, and bloom in perfection 

 the season following. 



With the exception of La Cenomane, Painted 

 Lady, and the True Yellow, all the Scotch roses 

 bear seed most abundantly : if this seed is sown 

 indiscriminately numerous varieties may be raised, 

 and many of them very interesting ; but the aim 

 should be to obtain varieties with large and very 

 double crimson flowers : this can only be done by 

 slightly hybridising, and to effect this it will be 

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