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the same method as Gallica Roses. But buckled 

 plants, about two or three feet high, are great beau- 

 ties; their beautiful soft white flowers are brought 

 nearer the eye, contrasting agreeably on the fojiage 

 of the plant. They are all free growers, and require 

 the knife to keep them thin, and in proper bounds. 

 They may, in all other respects, be treated as hardy 

 roses. 



ROSA DAMASCENA. 



DAMASK ROSE, OR ROSE OF DAMASCUS. 



Tbe Damask Rose is frequently confounded with 

 the Provins and Gallicas ; but this is not to be won- 

 dered at when the mixture of the various species by 

 impregnation is indiscriminately practised every year, 

 often producing plants and flowers, about whose fam- 

 ily scarcely tw'o judges could agree. I will, however, 

 point out a few that still possess all the marks and 

 characters of the pure species. They all have that 

 delicious odour so peculiar to the "old-fashioned Da- 

 mask Rose," and produce also their flow^ers in clus- 

 ters ; they have a long succession of bloom, and by 

 extra culture two or three of them have a tendencv 



