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preceding year; it is of very strong growth, making 

 shoots of twenty feet in one season, with very lux- 

 uriant foliage, and is more hardy than the three 

 former. For covering outbuildings, verandahs, 

 columns, temples, &c., it has no superior. Russel- 

 liana, Scarlet Grevillia, Russell's Cottage Rose, 

 Cottage Rose, and I believe it is sold under some 

 other titles besides, is considerably hybridized, but 

 not so as to lose its character as a pillar rose, of 

 which it is one of the best. I have pillars of it 

 twenty feet high, forming, during the month of 

 June, a very attractive object, having a profusion 

 of flowers of the richest shades of crimson ; many 

 of them being striped with white. From the base 

 to the pinnacle it is one mass of glowing beauty. 

 Perfectly hardy in our coldest latitudes, it has large 

 rich green foliage, very distinctly and deeply 

 nerved, the shoots are strong and erect, and will 

 grow freely in any soil or situation. The old 

 shoots only should be thinned out; the young 

 wood ought never to be shortened unless locality 

 demands it. The same style of pruning will apply 

 to all the varieties of the Multiflora. This opera- 

 tion should be performed early in the spring, before 

 the buds swell, but never when the wood is in a 

 frozen state. In more southern climates pruning 

 can be done at any period, from December to 

 January; but in the middle and eastern states it 



