EOSES THAT BLOOM IX JUNE. 



by the direct rays of the sun. It requires a dry 

 sheltered spot. Lnure Davoust is the climax of 

 perfection in this family ; with all the aid of the 

 imagination, its beaut}- on a well grown plant can- 

 not be pictured. The flowers are of various shades 

 of colour, from white to a lovely deep pink, perfect 

 in form ; the clusters are immense, and produced 

 from almost every eye of the strong wood of the 

 preceding year; it is of very strong growth, making 

 shoots of twenty feet in one season, with very lux- 

 uriant foliage, and is more hardy than the three 

 former. For covering outbuildings, verandas, co- 

 lumns, temples, &c., it has no superior. Russel- 

 liana, Scarlet Grevillia, Kussell's Cottage Rose, 

 Cottage Rose, and I believe it is sold under some 

 other titles besides, is considerably hybridized, but 

 not so as to lose its character as a pillar rose. I have 

 pillars of it twenty feet high, forming, during the 

 month of June, a very attractive object, having a 

 profusion of flowers of the richest shades of crimson ; 

 many of them being striped with white. From the 

 base to the pinnacle it is one mass of glowing 

 beauty. Perfectly hardy in our coldest latitudes, it 

 has large rich green foliage, very distinctly and deeply 

 nerved ; the shoots are strong and erect, and will 

 grow freely in any soil or situation. The old 

 shoots only should be thinned out ; the young 



