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poles, columns, or trellising. *fllba Odorata, or 

 the Double White Microphylla, grows very luxu- 

 riantly, frequently making shoots eight or ten feet 

 long in one season; and in warm soils, where the 

 season extends from March to December, they will 

 no doubt grow twenty feet. The flowers are very 

 large and double, of a yellowish- white, very fra- 

 grant, and look beautiful among the dark green 

 foliage. Hybrida, is also a strong grower, with 

 double flowers of a rosy-purple colour. Luxem- 

 bourg, appears to be a hybrid from some of the 

 Noisettes, of whose character it greatly partakes ; 

 the flowers are in clusters of a dull purple, very 

 double, and a little fragrant. Maria Leonide has 

 much of the Macartney Rose habit ; the foliage 

 nearly round, quite dark green and shining, with a 

 tinge of red on the young wood ; the flowers are 

 sweet scented, of a creamy-white colour, with a 

 delicate blush centre. There are several others 

 classed among these, which, as far as known to us, 

 are either entirely worthless, or are so like those 

 described, that it is questioned if they are not the 

 same; this is not surprising, for we have grown 

 many of them from seeds, and all were either 

 entirely single, or so much like the parent, that 

 they could not be distinguished from it; with the 

 exception of Rubra and Purpurea, which have 

 originated with us. A pure white, bright scarlet, 



