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in the garden equal to a moderate collection of roses. 

 Every one ought to have a few varieties of the prin- 

 cipal species, such as the red rose, exquisite for the 

 simplicity of its beauty ; the hundred-leaved ; the 

 damask; the provance; the moss, very common as 

 a double flower the single is no where to be seen ; 

 the white moss, also double, and which is becoming 

 now general ; the white ; the single yellow, serv- 

 ing the best of all flowers, to indicate an early or 

 late season, as its opening is not gradual, but at 

 once and decisive; the double yellow, which may 

 be tried on an east wall at a medium elevation: it 

 is remarkable for blowing seldom, and for not blow- 

 ing well above once in a lifetime ; hence its excel- 

 lence both as creating expectation and constituting 

 an era ; the Austrian, remarkable for having petals 

 red on one side and orange on the other; it is as 

 yet only found single a double variety would be 

 splendid ; the Scots rose, of many variations ; the 

 sweet brier, having double and various coloured 

 flowers; the musk, so named from its odour; 

 the China, and the Indian rose, formerly con- 

 fined to flowerpots and to the house, now the 

 hardiest and longest flowering ; the Ayrshire, re- 

 markable for its rambling growth. As there is 

 no finer object than a rose-tree, some of the more 

 woody species, as the white, the single yellow, the 

 Austrian, or the wild brier, grafted with one of 

 richer flowers, should be allowed to get up and ex- 

 pand its branches. But in general the finest flowers 

 are obtained by cutting down the young wood every 



