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to build and increase, as rightful inheritors of the premises. 

 In addition to this, many birds are delightful warblers in the 

 spring ; and some of those of a migratory character, if wel- 

 comed to their new home, will make a long stay, and in many 

 cases the same bird has been known to revisit its stopping 

 place for several seasons. But I am now digressing from my 

 subject, and must therefore proceed to the culture of the 

 Rose, hoping that ornithology will ere long go hand in hand 

 with botany and the pleasing art of floriculture. 



CHAPTER XIII. 



The Rose. 



ART. 1. General Remarks. 



THE Rose is so generally known, as one of the most pro- 

 minent class of flowers belonging to the flower garden, that 

 any comment on its beauty in this place would be altogether 

 useless ; I shall therefore proceed with its culture. In treat- 

 ing on the culture of the Rose, I shall bring the subject under 

 one general head, and then divide the different classes, as 

 acknowledged by florists, of the present improved state of 

 this lovely family of plants. 



The first general division of the Rose, is the difference 

 made from the time of blooming, which is the Roses that 

 bloom in June ; and Ever-blooming, or Monthly Roses. 

 These are again subdivided into many parts, which take their 

 nomenclature from some property prevalent in the class, as 

 the Rosa Multiflora, or many-flowered rose; Rosa Damas- 

 cena, the Damask rose, &c. There are some also that are 

 classed in honor of distinguished persons in floriculture, as 



