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once gets hold of the lower branches. It is also useful 

 for hanging over the face of a cliff. In a hot and 

 sunny position it is particularly effective in the late 

 autumn and early winter when bearing a profusion of 

 its bright orange, egg-shaped fruits. There is a good 

 white variety named Constance Elliot, 



Rosa. — We are taught by the hedgerow brier how 

 well suited is the Rose family for threading shoots 

 upwards through overtopping shrubs and trees, and 

 eventually crowning them with a coronal of fair flowers. 

 Indeed, if the planting of the wild garden was confined 

 to the Rose alone, it might well afford a vision of per- 

 fect summer loveliness. The many rambling Roses, 

 when once established, will clamber to the top of a 

 twenty-foot tree and wreathe its branches with drooping 

 flower-festoons. Besides the fair wild Roses, such as 

 R. alpina, R. arvensis, R. Brunonii, R. moschata, R. rubri- 

 folia and others, there are many beautiful named climbing 

 varieties. The R. polyantha section gives us the tiny, 

 single, white polyantha simplex, the type, and the 

 larger polyantha grandiflora, the nankeen Claire Jacquier, 

 the pale yellow Aglaia, the pink Leuchstern, the red 

 Crimson Rambler, the flesh-pink Psyche, the white 

 Thalia, and the pink Euphrosyne. In the sempervirens 

 group are the pink Flora, the white Felicite Perpetue, 

 and the pale pink Myrianthes Renoncule. The Ayr- 

 shires provide the white Bennetts Seedling and the flesh- 

 coloured Dundee Rambler. Hybrid Musks include the 

 buff Garland Rose and the white Madame D^Arblay. 

 In Hybrid Teas we have the fine, light-crimson Reine 

 Olga de Wurtemburg. The crimson Carmine Pillar 

 and the lighter Longworth Rambler are Hybrids, while 

 of pure Teas the cream-white Madame Alfred Carriere, 

 the salmon Madame Berard, and the pale crimson 

 Waltham Climber are all vigorous growers, as are the 

 Noisettes, Reve d'Or, orange-yellow, Aimee Vibert, 



