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old Multiflora, the type of the class, which is a pretty 

 variety, bearing fine pink flowers in clusters. 



Boursault Rose, (Rosa Alpina,) a hardy, slender species 

 of rose that is now found common in almost every flower 

 garden, and is often used to bud the choice kinds of tender 

 China Rose upon. It was once much esteemed as a running 

 rose, and it is at this time a useful variety for covering fences f 

 trellises, and the like places ; and some are pretty for pillar 

 roses, as the Elegant, which makes a rapid growth and has 

 a profusion of fine, double, crimson flowers. Purpurea, or 

 purple crimson, is also a desirable variety, which is often 

 sold under the name of purple Noisette, or Michigan Rose ; 

 it has pretty, semi-double, purple, crimson flowers. To 

 these may be added the White Boursault, gracilis, and several 

 other varieties, which will be found in most nursery cata- 

 logues. 



The Prairie Rose, (Rosa Rubifolia,) or Native Prairie, is 

 one of the finest climbers and pillar roses of the present day, 

 and is undoubtedly destined at no very distant period to 

 become a general favorite, and to find a place in every cot- 

 tage garden in this country. The old Prairie Rose, known 

 as the Ohio or Kentucky Rose, has been cultivated in the 

 western states since the year 1830, as a fine, native specimen 

 of climbing roses, and its double flowers produced in large 

 clusters of various shades and colors are still much admired. 

 This, however, has been much surpassed by the fine seed- 

 ling specimens produced from the native Prairie Rose, by Mr. 

 Feast, of Baltimore, who has grown the following splendid 

 varieties, which are perfectly hardy, and are peculiarly adapted 

 for either pillar roses, covering arbors, rockery, &c. 



The Queen of the Prairies is one of the best of the above, 

 having fine, large, well formed, rose colored flowers, three 

 inches in diameter, dtp shaped, and having the property of 

 withstanding the sun without being scalded. It should be 

 in the hands of every cultivator. 



Pallic/a. pale blush, perfectly double, is an admirable 



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