96 ROSES THAT BLOOM THE WHOLE SEASON. 



pillar rose, of free growth, and is frequently sold 

 for Lamarque. fcactans, as its name implies, is a 

 milky white, so pure that I do not remember hav- 

 ing seen any rose of so- delicate a white ; I received 

 it two years ago as a Tea, but it now ranges with 

 the Noisettes, and among the dwarf varieties, with 

 very large and extremely double flowers, which it 

 produces very freely. Lamarque; this is a cele- 

 brated variety, now known over the whole country 

 for its magnificent, large, perfectly double, yellow- 

 ish-white, pendulous flowers, which it produces in 

 clusters of three to ten in each. In good dry rich 

 soils it will grow twenty feet in a season, and in 

 South Carolina, one of my correspondents informs 

 me, that their plant, now eight years old, covers a 

 verandah fifty feet long and twenty feet high, and 

 is one mass of flowers from May to December. 

 There is also a plant, in this city, that occupies 

 twenty feet by eight, of a fence that faces north, 

 where it is influenced by the morning and evening 

 sun, but the sun, from November to March, never 

 touches the plant, confirming the opinion that in 

 winter the sun does more injury to delicate roses 

 than the cold. This plant does much better on its 

 own roots than when budded or grafted. -The 

 plant that I imported of it in 1833 is budded on 

 the French Dog Rose, and makes a very fine 

 standard, but bears no comparison with the mag- 



