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beautiful clusters are produced most abundantly, and when train- 

 ed on a pillar, trellis, or house, or gracefully wreathed in festoons, 

 their effect is strikingly elegant. Both these varieties are valua- 

 ble acquisitions to the list of climbing roses. 



Triomphe de Bollwiller is a very fine Evergreen Rose, 

 rather tender in this climate, but valuable for its tendency to 

 bloom in the autumn. Its flowers are very large, double, fragrant 

 and globular, and their color is a blush or creamy white. At the 

 South where it would not be killed by the cold weather, this 

 would be one of the most desirable climbing roses. 



White Banksia is a beautiful little rose about half an inch 

 in diameter, blooming abundantly in small and pure white clus- 

 ters with a slight perfume like that of the violet. Both this and 

 Jaune Serin are very elegant when in full bloom on a well-grown 

 plant, either on the wall of a green house or in the open air at 

 the South. 



We have endeavored in the preceding pages to convey all the 

 information requisite to guide the amateur in the culture and 

 selection of choice varieties of the rose. In rose culture, as in 

 everything where there is room for the exercise of humau skill, 

 progress is the watchword and the result ; and while we deem 

 the instructions given in these pages the best in the present 

 state of knowledge on this subject, we shall hail with pleasure 

 any improvement upon them. The preparation of a portion of 

 this work has afforded us pleasant recreation in the intervals of 

 leisure from business, and for the more toilsome part we shall feci 

 abundantly repaid if we are found to have thrown one mite into 

 the constantly increasing treasury of horticultural taste. That 

 this taste is increasing we deem one of the best signs of the times, 

 an evidence that men are beginning to discover that the accumu 

 lation of wealth is not the whole business or pleasure of life. In 

 a true love for trees and plants there is always something elevat- 

 ing. A love for wealth and its accumulation is inseparable from 

 idolatry, but a love for trees and plants is productive of the best 

 results in a mind properly constituted. It not only preserves it 



