80 THE SUMMER ROSE GARDEN. 



CLIMBING ROSES. 



DIVISION FIRST. THE AYRSHIRE EOSE (EosA 

 ARVENSIS HYBRIDA). 



It is the opinion of some cultivators, that the 

 varieties of the Ayrshire Eose have been origi- 

 nated from the Eosa arvensis, or creeping single 

 White Eose of our woods and hedges. But this 

 is contradicted by botanists, who assert, that the 

 original Ayrshire Eose was raised in Scotland 

 from foreign rose seed : it may have been ; but to 

 judge from its habit, I feel no hesitation in assert- 

 ing, that it is merely a seedling hybrid from our 

 Eosa arvensis, having acquired much additional 

 vigour, as all hybrid roses nearly invariably do, 

 from some accidental impregnation: perhaps no 

 rose can be more luxuriant than this ; for the 

 Single Ayrshire, and that semi-double variety, 

 known as the Double White, will often make 

 shoots in one season, twenty to thirty feet in 

 length. Several of our prettiest varieties have 

 been raised from seed by Mr. Martin, of Eose 

 Angle, Dundee ; but the first in the Catalogue, 

 the Ayrshire Queen, the only dark Ayrshire Eose 

 known, was originated by myself, in 1835, from 

 the Blush Ayrshire, impregnated with the Tus- 

 cany Eose. But one seed germinated, and the 

 plant produced has proved a complete hybrid. 

 Its flowers are of the same shape, and not more 



