ROSES THAT BLOOM IN JUNE. 



ROSA 



THE BOURSAULT ROSE. 



THIS tribe takes its name from the late MODS. 

 Boursault, a distinguished French amateur horti- 

 culturist. They are the hardiest of the climbing 

 roses easily known by their long flexible shoots, 

 of a reddish-purple colour, and withstanding with 

 impunity the severest of our winters, flowering 

 profusely early in the season; they may well be 

 termed the harbingers of the rosary. They are 

 well adapted for covering arbours or concealing 

 outbuildings, walls, or any other disagreeable ob- 

 jects. They are also frequently cultivated for 

 stocks, whereon to bud other roses of more rare 

 character, which purpose they will answer very 

 well ; though a plant thus formed renders its dura- 

 bility uncertain, being very liable to sucker, or 

 throw out shoots from the ground, thereby taking 

 away nourishment from the part of the plant which 

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