ROSES YOU THE WILD (lARDEX. 



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"We have," sayi? a correspondent, " a pretty extensive col- 

 lection ol' 

 Eoses. but 

 one (if the 

 most attrac- 

 tive speci- 

 mens on the 

 place is an 

 old double 

 white Ayr- 

 shire Eose, 

 growing in 

 a grou]) 

 of common 

 Laurel inthe 

 shrul3beries. 

 We cannot 

 tell how old 

 the plant 

 may be, but 

 it has prob- 

 ably been in 

 its present 

 situation for 

 thirty years, 

 struo-o-ling 

 the best \vay 

 it could to 

 keep its 

 place among 



Wild Rose growing on a Pollard Ash in Orchardleigh Park, Somerset. 



