seems most to need their aid. The Champney, Noisette, 

 and most of the varieties, may be trained against the sides of 

 houses, over bowers, &c. to a very considerable length, al- 

 though not quite so rampant in their growth as the different 

 varieties of the Multiflora, 



Noisette. This rose, which is a variety of the preceding, 

 is very similar to it in the size and colour of the flowers, but 

 these are more double, and produced in larger clusters. It 

 is an admirable variety, producing its flowers in large num- 

 bers together after the manner of the White Musk. It 

 flourishes most in a free exposition, and needs no protection 

 in winter. There are two other varieties, one with deeper 

 red, and the other with single flowers. 



Rosa Grtrvillii, or Greville Rose. This species has at- 

 tracted .nuch notice in different parts of Europe and in this 

 country, being quite a novelty in its general characteristics, 

 and in commenting upon which I cannot perhaps give a 

 better idea to the reader than by extracting the statements 

 made in other publications. In the fourth number of Lou* 

 don's Magazine, page 467, is the following description given, 

 in a letter from a correspondent to the editor : 



" You will no doubt recollect the shoot I showed you of 

 my Greville Rose, which grew 18 feet in a few weeks it is 

 now in bloom, and is the 'most singular curiosity of all the 

 rose tribe that has come under my observation ; it grows on 

 an east by north aspect, on the gable end of my house, 

 covering above 100 feet square, with more than 100 trusses 

 of bloom. Some of them have more than 50 buds in a clus- 

 ter, and the whole will average about 30 in a truss, so that 

 the amount of flower buds is little short of 3,000. But the 

 most astonishing curiosity is the variety of colours produced 

 on the buds at first opening; white, light blush, deeper 

 blush, light red, darker red, and purple, all on the same 

 clusters " 



In the report of the Horticultural Society of London for 



the month of June, 1 826, the following remarks are made : 



" Rosa Grevillii, in a single fasciculus of flowers, are roses 



of every shade of purple, and from white to the darkest tint ; 



it is one of the handsomest of climbing roses." 



The leaves are beautifully serrated on the edges, and 

 those on the young shoots have a pink border running en- 

 tirely round the leaf, and which, contrasted with the green, 

 gives them a delicate and beautiful appearance; the petiole 

 or leafstalk is broad at the base, and deeply indented on the 



