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and even delicious. Wherever there is a hedge to 

 be planted, it should have a few plants of the sweet 

 brier interspersed ; it bears clipping well, and even 

 a hedge of itself would prove a garden ornament 

 rarely equalled, being of a lively green, and its 

 many associations will make it always pleasing. 

 To keep it within bounds, it can be freely clipped 

 or sheared twice a year, and should not be allowed 

 to get over four feet high. The plant grows in 

 many of our woods, and is described by some 

 American botanists, although others consider it to 

 be an acclimated foreigner ; be that as it may, its 

 fragrance and qualities are the same, and familiar 

 to all. Growers and sellers have taken the advan- 

 tage either by hybridizing or natural appearance, 

 and have introduced to our notice Double Yellow 

 Sweet Briers, Double White Sweet Briers, 

 Double Red Sweet Briers, Celestial Siueet 

 Briers, Double Striped Sweet Briers, and what 

 will come next cannot be divined. Some of these 

 are certainly well worth attention, and others are 

 about as much like a raspberry bush as a sweet 

 brier. However, the following may be cultivated, 

 observing that they have none of the climbing 

 character of the original. Celestial, very pale 

 blush, approaching to white; flowers small and 

 double; foliage small, and has a little of the spicy 

 odour so agreeable in the original. It appears to 



