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Noisette roses (fig. 562) propagate easily from cuttings. 

 I did not know what a Banksian rose (fig. 563) really was till 

 1 saw it in flower at Florence, where both the yellow and white 



Fig. 562.— White Noisette Rose. 



Fig. 563. — Yellow 

 Banksian Rose. 



Fig. 563 a. — Macartney's 

 Rose. 



varieties cover extensive surfaces. When they put forth their flowers 

 in bunches with thousands of blossoms, there is hardly anything more 

 beautiful to be seen. In this country they are apt to be killed down 

 — even when the stems are as thick as the wrist — during severe winters. 

 The Macartney roses {R. bracteata, fig. 563 a) produce a fine eff'ect 

 against a wall in summer, when their glossy fohage and their single 

 flowers covered with bees is a glorious sight. I prefer the single to the 

 double Macartney, which frequently does not open its flowers well. 

 Neither have lived with me at Wallington. 



"About us thus, 

 Of sempiternal roses, bending wreathed 

 Those garlands twain ; and to the innermost 

 E'en thus the external answer'd." — Dante, Paradise. 



There is another fine group of roses, which are more beautiful and, 

 as it were, more refined than the large hybrid perpetuals ; namgly, the 

 Tea-roses. They are delicate, and are liable to be killed to the ground 

 in severe winters if the gardener omits to protect them. Mr. Wood 

 has marked for me at least forty-five varieties which he thinks necessary, 

 and we have probably two or three dozen kinds always in cultivation. 

 Some never grow, as the Vicomtesse de Cazes. Homere appears to 

 be much hardier, and is easily forced in early spring, yielding abundance 

 of flowers. Tea-roses should be planted in a light and rather dry soiU 



