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most of them are rapid growers, with long, 

 flexible shoots; smooth, luxuriant foliage; 

 large, rather numerous, thorns ; globular or 

 cup-shaped flowers, which are freely produced 

 in their season. Those of vigorous growth, 

 and most of them are such, require but little 

 pruning. Many of them make beautiful Pillar 

 Roses and can be used as climbers in posi- 

 tions where extremely rapid growth is not 

 required ; in such places they make the best 

 summer climbers that we have. 



" It is time, I think, for some alterations 

 in the nomenclature and classification of the 

 rose. When summer roses roses, that is, 

 which bloom but once were almost the only 

 varieties grown, and when hybridizers found 

 a splendid market for novelties in any quan- 

 tities, new always, and distinct in name, the 

 subdivisions yet remaining in some of our 

 catalogues were interesting, no doubt, to 

 our forefathers, and more intelligible, let us 

 hope, than they are to us. Let us believe 

 that it was patent to their shrewder sense 

 why pink roses were called Albas, and roses 

 whose hues were white and lemon were de- 

 scribed as Damask. Let us suppose that 

 they could distinguish at any distance the 

 Gallica from the Provence Rose, and that 

 when they heard the words Hybrid China, 



