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and protected with an occasional covering in winter, 

 convej to us a better idea of the riches of Chilian vege- 

 tation than when they are confined to the shelves of 

 the green-house. Among the more ornamental hardy 

 varieties may be mentioned F. discolor and F. Riccar- 

 tonia ; and particularly F. corymbiflora, perhaps the 

 finest of all. Many roses are also well adapted for 

 walls, such as the varieties of Noisette, Boursault, and 

 the different species from China. 



A separate compartment, called the Rosary, is ge- 

 nerally devoted to-the cultivation of roses. It is often 

 of an, ovaL form, with concentric beds,, and. narrow 

 intervening walks of grass or gravel,, but it may assume 

 any configuration which is suited to display this favor- 

 ite plant. Of the thousand varieties of roses which 

 exist in the English nurseries, we pretend not to give 

 any selection. It may^ however, be remarked, that in 

 planting the Rosary, care should be taken to classify 

 the sorts according to the sizes and affinities, otherwise 

 the effect will be much impaired. The sorts are gene- 

 rally classed as Damasks, Perpetuals, French Roses, 

 Chinese Roses, Scotch, Celestials, and Moss Roses. A 

 variety of double-flowering Sweet Briers have been re- 

 cently added to their number, uniting the beauty of 

 the double rose and the fragrance of the brier. The 

 climbing sorts niay be. advantageously introduced, being 

 trained to pillar-like trellises. In the Royal Botanic 

 Garden of Edinburgh they are trained to living posts, 

 consisting of straight poplars, closely pollarded, so as 

 to show only a few leaves at top. The Banksian Rose 

 is one of the finest climbers, but has this peculiarity, 

 that the flowers are produced only on shoots of one 

 year's growth ; the pruning must therefore take place 



