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creeping roses, and surrounded with other 

 varieties. 



For covering arbours or trellis-work, the 

 bracted rose, Rosa bracteata, commonly called 

 Sir George Staunton's rose, which was brought 

 from China in the year 1795, is the most 

 proper, as it grows to a great height, and 

 thick of branches that are covered with shin- 

 ing leaves of a very fine green. The flowers 

 are single and perfectly white, of a strong 

 and agreeable perfume: it blossoms in August 

 and September. 



The modes of retarding the flowering of 

 the Provence and moss-roses, until the au- 

 tumn are various ; and as it is desirable to 

 continue these beauties of the garden longer 

 than they are naturally disposed to last, we 

 shall mention the best means of obtaining 

 this enjoyment. The most simple method is 

 by cutting oft* all the tops of the shoots that 

 have been produced the same spring, which 

 should be done just before they begin to show 

 their buds ; this will cause them to make 

 fresh shoots, that will produce flowers late in 

 the autumn. It may also be done by trans- 

 planting the bushes in the spring, just as they 

 have formed their buds, which should be cut 

 off, but the roots must not be out of the earth 

 long enough to become dry, and they gene- 



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