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Mr. Greenwood Pym writes, referring to the above 

 note : — 



' I have two large Hawthorns— round-headed standards — 

 growing close together, so that their edges touch, forming, as 

 it were, two gentle hills with a valley between, and sloping 

 down to within about 6 feet of the lawn. Of these one is 

 Crataegus Crus-galli; the other C. tanacetifolia. Behind, 

 and partly through these, climbs a very old Noisette Rose — 

 all that now remains of an arched trellis— producing a vast 

 number of bunches of white flowers, six or eight together, and 

 about T.\ in. or 2 in. across. The old gnarled stem of the 

 Rose is scarcely noticeable amongst those of the Thorns till 

 it reaches the top of them, whence it descends between the 

 trees in a regular torrent of blossom, in addition to occupying 

 the topmost boughs of the Cockspur Thorn. A smaller plant 

 of the same Rose has recently been trained up a large Arbor- 

 vitse and has its stem- clothed with Ivy. It is now festooned 

 with snowy flowers hanging down from and against the dark 

 green of the Arbor-vitae and Ivy.' 



'We have,' says a correspondent, ' a collection of Roses, but 

 one of the most attractive is an old double white Ayrshire 

 Rose, growing in a group of common Laurel. We cannot 

 tell how old the plant may be, but it has probably been in its 

 present situation for thirty years, struggling to keep its place 

 among the tall Laurels, sometimes sending out a shoot of 

 white flowers on this side and sometimes on that side of the 

 clump, and then scrambling up to the tops of the tallest limbs 

 and draping them with its blossoms throughout June and 

 July. Nearly three years ago the Laurels were cut down to 

 within 6 feet of the ground, leaving the straggling limbs 

 of the Rose amongst them, and since then it has thriven 



