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6. The blooming shoots should not exceed twelve inches before 

 they flower. 



7. The bloom should stand out beyond the foUage, and the plant 

 should be compact and bushy. 



We now proceed to a family which we shall designate Climbing 

 Eoses, and which comprise blooms of the Noisette kind, that is, in 

 bunches ; blooms which come singly, large and small ; flowers early 

 and late; and, in fact, which comprise all sorts of roses that grow tall 

 enough for training. 



Pxopertios of Climting Roses, 



1. The petals should be thick, broad, and smooth at the edges, with 

 the outer ones curving slightly inwards. 



2. The flower should be highly perfumed, or, as the dealers call it, 

 fragrant. 



3. The flower should be double to the centre, high on the crown, 

 round in the outline, and regular in the disposition of the petals. 



4. The joints should be short from leaf to leaf. The blooms should 

 come on very short branches, and aU up the main shoots. The plant 

 should be always growing and developing its flowers, from spring to 

 autumn, and the foUage should completely hide all the stems, whether 

 the plan be on front of a house or on any given device. 



Concluding Hemarts. 



Having now travelled through the chief of the families, which 

 require separate notices of their properties, the first three properties 

 numbered being required in all of them, we add, by way of a finish 

 for all, except Moss Roses, that 



The foliage should be bright green and shining, and, though not 

 likely to be found in many varieties, it should be permanent, and con- 

 Btitute an evergreen. 



By this, we mainly establish a point in favor of an evergreen. We 

 mention nothing about size, because size forms the distinction between 

 many roses which have no other difference, and has httle or nothing 

 to do with the properties of the Rose, except uniformity in the same 

 variety. 



