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ers, wliich are freely produced in their season. 

 Those of vigorous growth, and most of them are 

 such, require but little pruning. Many of them 

 make beautiful Pillar Roses, and can be used as 

 climbers in positions where extremely rapid 

 growth is not required ; in such places they make 

 the best summer chmbers that we have. 



''It is time, I think, for some alterations in 

 the nomenclature and classification of the rose. 

 When summer roses — roses, that is, which bloom 

 but once — were almost the only varieties grown, 

 and when hybridisers found a splendid market 

 for novelties in any quantities, new always, and 

 distinct in name, the subdivisions yet remaining 

 in some of our catalogues were interesting, no 

 doubt, to our forefathers, and more intelhgible, 

 let us hope, than they are to us. Let us believe 

 that it was patent to their shrewder sense why 

 pink roses were called Albas, and roses whose 

 hues were white and lemon were described as 

 Damask. Let us suppose that they could dis- 

 tinguish at any distance the Gallica from the 

 Provence Pose, and that when they heard the 

 words Hybrid China, instead of being reminded, 

 as I am, of a cross between a Cochin and a 



