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variety with flowers only semidouble ; the colour 

 is pretty, and its profusion, at a distance, makes up 

 for deficiency of petals. The species Rosa Alpina 

 is a native of the Alps, where its scrubby habit has 

 little affinity to the rampant growers now described. 

 They should have, wherever planted, plenty of 

 space allotted for them ; for after being one or two 

 years established, they will make shoots ten to 

 twelve feet long. In pruning, the oldest wood 

 should be cut out, merely to keep the branches 

 from being too crowded : the flowers are produced 

 from the wood of the preceding year. They will 

 grow freely in any soil or situation, and will bear 

 with impunity the severest winters of the northern 

 states. 



ROSA SEMPERVIRENS. 

 THE EVERGREEN HOSE. 



THIS rose anof its varieties, although very popu- 

 lar in France and England, lose much of the cha- 

 racter implied by the name when cultivated in this 

 part of the United States, where they become 

 deciduous, losing their foliage on the approach of 

 severe frost. But in the more favoured southern 



