VII. LIST OP SHRUBS. 



blush. 7th. Monthly roses, white and red. 8th. Yellow double 

 and single. 9th. Rose de Manx. 10th. Sweet Briar, llth. 

 Austrian briar (the flower, the colour of that of a nastur- 

 tium). 12th. Chinese, or ever-blowing. 13th. Multiftoia, 

 many-flowering. 14th. Lady Banks. The three last may be 

 easily raised from cuttings : all the rest from layers or 

 suckers. The Lady Banks is a rose brought from China by 

 Sir JOSEPH BANKS^and given to the King's gardens at Kew. 

 It is a little white rose, and bears its flowers in bunches, 

 and yields to nothing, in point of odour, except the Mag- 

 nolia Glauca. The leaf is very delicate, and the tree has 

 no thorns, in which respect it differs, I believe, from every 

 other rose in the world. After all, perhaps, leaf, colour, 

 size, every thing taken into account, the Provence rose is 

 still the finest, and they ought to be in abundance in 

 every shrubbery. To cause the rose to continue to pro- 

 duce flowers for a long while, gather the flowers close to 

 the stem, cropping off the seed hin as soon as the petals 

 begin to drop, which, besides the other circumstance, 

 will prevent the ground from being littered by the flowers 

 which become putrid in a short time. Roses may be 

 budded on stocks of any vigorous sort, and stocks may 

 be raised from the seeds of the dog, or hedge, rose. This 

 is the way in which tall standard rose-trees are obtained. 

 The stocks should be managed in the same way as stocks 

 for fruit-trees. Roses never thrive in poor, and par- 

 ticularly, in shallow ground. They like cool, and some- 

 what stiff ground j and you always perceive the hedge 

 roses finest on the sides of land which is too stiff to be 

 arable land. If, therefore, the ground of your shrubbery 

 be of a very light nature, you ought to move it deep for 

 the roses, and to get something of the clayey or marly 



