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Ayrshire Rose, raised in this neig-hborhood about ten years ago. 

 These roses now most completely cover the whole ground, a space 

 of thirty feet by twenty. At present they are in full bloom, show- 

 ing probably not less than ten thousand roses in this small 

 space." 



The Ayrshire Roses are also valuable for weeping trees ; when 

 budded on a stock some ten or twelve feet high, the branches 

 quickly reach the ground, and protecting the stem from the sun by 

 their close foHage, present a weeping tree of great beauty, loaded 

 with flowers. 



Dundee Rambler is one of the best and most double of the 

 Ayrshire Roses. Its color is white, often edged with pink, and 

 blooming in large clusters. It is a very desirable variety. 



Felicite Perpetuelle is a most beautiful rose, and one of 

 the very best of the Sempervirens, or Evergreen family. Its 

 shoots may be thinned out, but not shortened ; and when proper- 

 ly cultivated, it produces an abundance of very double creamy- 

 white flowers, shaped like a double ranunculus. The Evergreen 

 Roses are very beautiful and desirable, and although not entirely 

 evergreen in this chmate, retain their foliage very late in the sea- 

 son. They are very easy of cultivation, and most luxuriant 

 cUmbers over naked trees, old houses, fences and walls, or along 

 the surface of the ground, which they will soon cover to the ex- 

 clusion of all weeds, and present a large mass of rich, glossy fo- 

 liage and abundant bloom. When thus planted, the large weeds 

 should be pulled up until the plant fairly covers the ground, when 

 no more attention will be needed. They are well adapted for 

 training up columns, and we know of few things more beautiful 

 than a temple or pergole formed of numerous columns, with Ev- 

 ergreen Roses growing luxuiiantly upon them and festooned 

 gracefully between. Nothing, indeed, can be more gracefully 

 beautiful than festoons, wherever they can be made. They con- 

 stitute the chief beauty of the vine-clad fields of Italy, and there 

 would be no less beauty in occasional festooning of roses trained 

 between pillars or the trees of a lawn. They are also very beau- 

 tiful when budded on high standards, their dark green glossy 



