The Canadian Horticulturist. 



So, while we hold to life's sweet dower, 

 Oh, let us make each thorn a flower ! 

 For Time moves on with rapid force, 

 Nor joy, nor sorrow stays his course. 

 Hastening us onward to the " Bourne " 

 From whence no traveller can return. 

 Mount Royal Vale, Que. —GRANDMA GOWAN. 



CLIMBING ROSES. 



T T is not every one who can afford to build and furnish an elegant home. The 

 I adornments of art are very expensive, and come within the reach of the few 

 f rather than the many, but Dame Nature is kind to all alike,and distributes her 

 choicest decorations with a lavish hand. The dahlia and the carnation, the rose 

 and the lily grow with equal beauty and fragrance in the dooryard of the poor 

 widow and in the garden of the wealthy lord, if only it receives equal atten- 

 tion. Therefore, in drawing the attention of the readers of the Canadian Hor- 

 ticulturist to such adornments, we are placing before them objects which may 

 be attained by all, and which have the power to transform many a cold, unin- 

 viting exterior to a place of beauty. 



In Great Britain the rose grows to its greatest perfection, so that the " rose of 

 England " has become almost a household expression, but many varieties are too 

 tender to endure our Canadian winters, and can only be grown under glass. 

 Among the climbers there are many that will fail utterly if planted outside here, 

 as for instance, the Ayrshire roses, which are a class of rapid growers, and much 

 used in England to cover unsightly buildings, and the Banksia roses, which have 

 very small flowers like double cherry blossoms and a violet perfume. There is 

 another class against which our readers need to be warned, viz., the " many flow- 

 ered rose " {Rosa Multijiora), one variety of which has been much sold in Ontario 

 by agents from extravagant colored plates. We refer to Grevillia, or ^^ Seven 

 Sisters" which has double flowers borne in clusters, that in a picture looks very 

 attractive ; but really, the flowers are small and possess little beauty, besides it is 

 too tender for our province. 



Fortunately we have in the Prairie rose (Rosa Setigera) a class of hardy native 

 climbing roses, often found growing wild in Michigan and the Western States, 

 which we may plant with confidence. Our colored plate, for this month, repre- 

 sents two of the more commonly known roses of this class, which are favorites 

 everywhere on account of their hardiness, free blooming and the fact of their 

 flowers appearing just after the other varieties are nearly over. They are the well- 

 known Queen of the Prairie and Baltimore Belle, varieties, that were raised 

 in the year 1843 ^' ^ rose grower named Feast, in Baltimore, from seeds of the wild 

 Prairie rose, crossed with some European variety. These two, the former red and 



