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their area, and wholly red on the other, thus symholizing the union 

 of the houses after the bloody wars of the White and Red Roses. 

 They are fragrant flowers, but the bushes on their own roots are of 

 irregular, scrubby, and inelegant growth. Budded as standards, they 

 may be treated in the same way as the French roses. Show damasks, 

 which deserve mention, are Madame Hardy, pure white, but with a 

 gi-een eye too conspicuous; Semiramis, fawn in the center, shaded 

 with glossy pink; la feroce or ferox, very large, full, pink flowers, with 

 an extra allowance of thorns on the branches ; la Constance, or poBony- 

 flowered, very large, flattish, full, pink, darker in the center, makes a 

 showy standard ; la Ville de Bruxelles, pink, very large and double ; la 

 cherie, delicate blush, cupped, very double ; Madame Zoutman, delicate 

 ci'eam-color ; and pulcherie, pure white. Do not. prune these in too 

 closely ; let them run on, to form large heads, unless they are getting 

 shabby and naked near the original bud. 



Running Roses.— Of climbing roses, useful for pillars, temples, veran- 

 das, and running over the front of a cottage, there are several groups. 

 The Boursault roses, R. Alpina, the Alpine or thornless roses, are very 

 distinct. They are perfectly hardy, of exuberant growth if well fed, 

 and afford a good foundation on which to bud other varieties, either as 

 standards or trained against a wall. The crimson Boursault, or Amadis, 

 has an abundance and a long succession of semi-double effective flowers, 

 and makes a gay covering for an arbor or a rustic arch. The blush 

 Boursault, or Calypso, or deVIsle, or Florida, or the white Boursault, is 

 still more rampant. Its perfect bloom is extremely beautiful, very 

 double, of delicate texture, deep blush in the center, shaded to white 

 outside ; but the majority of flowers produced are imperfect and mis- 

 shapen, as if some one had burst by a kick of the foot a cambric hand- 

 kerchief rolled tight into a ball. These are the two leading types ; 

 other Boursaults are Drummond's thornless, elegans, gracilis and iner- 

 mis, all of them different shades of rosy crimson and cherry-col^. As 

 standards they mak.e enormous heads, which become pendent and weep- 

 ing if allowed to run on. 



The Ayrshire Roses — R. arvensis — are nearly as vigorous as the pre- 

 ceding, quite as hardy, and will serve the same purpose. They are 

 mostly shades of blush and white. Rosa ruga, or the double Ayrshire, 

 the Queen of the Belgians, the Dundee rambler, and splendens, are the 

 best of these, and very elegant they are in their peculiar style. 



The Evergreen Koses — R. sempervirens — are named according to what 

 we would wish them to be, rather than to what they are. They have 

 smooth, shining, handsome foliage, which looks as if it ought to be as 

 evergreen as a laurel-leaf; and the habit of their growth gives you the 

 idea that they certainly might flower all the autumn through. But 

 they don't. The best of them \sfelicite perpetuelle, an elegant climber, 

 with clusters of small, very double, pinky white blossoms. Donna 

 Maria is very pure white, as if the petals were made of rice-paper with 

 graceful foliage, but more tender than the above. Grown as weeping 

 standards, they should be suffered to make a cataract of drooping 

 branches without restraint. Adelaide d' Orleans is not very, if at all, 

 distinct from felicite. Brunonii has the merit of being rosy-crimson. 



