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Cluster Roses — I could never well understand the distinction 

 between cluster and noisette roses; however, florists make it and we 

 suppose- we must follow suit. Noisettes cluster just as much as 

 those I am about to name. If it is the musky odor so peculiar to 

 the old white musk cluster rose, that characterises the group, I must 

 say very few of them possess more than the old stump that traces 

 out these scrawls and the odor is peculiar only to the white roses 

 of the group. I have never seen a rose that I could call a red or pink 

 mask cluster. HerhemonVs White, is a very excellent and one of the 

 bast light cluster roses, always in bloom, profuse and of fine growth, 

 •but no musky odor. 



Princess of Nassau — -is also a fine white, quite double and has a 

 musk fragrance. . ' • * 



White Musk Cluster — -the type and standard of this peculiar class. 



River's Music Cluster — is pure white and has an abundance of the 

 musky odor about it to rank amongst the best, though in beauty 

 of its flower it is almost the woi>t. 



Microphylla Roses — have all an agreeable and distinctive foli- 

 age, with flowers not to be despised for size or form; they are all of 

 free growth and amongst them is our very best white climbing 

 rose ; they do not appear to be so much propagated as formerly, 



for we rarelv see them in our markets. 



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Alba Olorata or white microphylla — is a rapid grower, with luxu- 

 riant dark green foliage and long flexile shoots adapted for columns 

 or arbors, and bloom from June till October, it is sometimes called 

 Maria Leonida, which is a very distinct dwarf variety, with some- 

 what similar foliage and flower. 



Rosea — is the Burr Rose readily recognised by the bud having 

 that peculiar appearance indicated by the local name — flower large 

 very double, flit formed, no fragrance, and of a bright rose color 

 makes a large bush, or does well for a fence or column, blooms 

 frequently during the season from wood of the preceding years 

 growth — there are several other sorts not worthy of note for either 

 flower or foliage. 

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