vu.] 



LIST OF SHRUBS. 



255 



being kept tight down over them. There is a new variety, called 

 the Tree Rhododendron. It grows in the tree form, blows an 

 immense and superb flower, and is, when in full bloom, the most 

 beautiful sight of the kind that I ever saw. It has the stately 

 form of the tree, with the appendage of a large and most brilliant 

 flower ; but its hardiness has not, I believe, yet been tried. 



397. ROSE. — Lat. Rosa, Any eulogy of the rose would be 

 childish, and it would not be much less childish to insert a cata- 

 logue of roses of more than a thousand in number, from the lists 

 of the florists of France and England. The roses that might con- 

 tent any man, not a professed florist, are the following: 1st. Pro- 

 vence, white and red. 2nd. Moss Provence, white and red. 

 3rd. Damask. 4th. Velvet. 5th. Striped. 6th. Maiden s blush. 

 7th. Monthly roses, white and red. 8th. Yellow, double and 

 single. 9t^. Rose de Manx, \0i\\. Sweet Briar. Austrian 

 briar (the flower, the colour of that of a nasturtium). 12th. 

 Chinese, or ever-blowing. 13th. Multijlora, many-flowering. 

 14th. Lady Banks. The three last may be easily raised from 

 cuttings : all the rest from layers or suckers. The Lady Banks is 

 a rose brought from China by Sir Joseph Bamks, and given to 

 the King's gardens at Kew. It is a little ^white rose, and bears its 

 flowers in bunches, and yields to nothing in point of odour except 

 the Magnolia Glauca. The leaf is very delicate, and the tree has 

 no thorns, in which respect it diflcrs, I believe, from every other 

 rose in the world. After all, perhaps, leaf, colour, size, every 

 thing taken into accouiit, the Provence rose is still the finest, and 

 it ought to be in abundance in every shrubbery. To cause the 

 rose to continue to produce flowers for a long while, gather the 

 flowers close to the stem, cropping off" the seed hip as soon as the 

 petals begin to drop, which, besides the other circumstance, will 

 prevent the ground from being littered by the flowers, which become 

 putrid in a short time. Roses may be budded on stocks of any vigorous 

 sort, and stocks may be raised from the seeds of the dog, or hedge, 

 rose. This is the way in which tall standard rose-trees are obtained. 

 The stocks should be managed in the same way as stocks for 

 fruit-trees. Roses never thrive in poor, and particularly in 

 shallow ground. They like cool, and somewhat stifle, ground ; 

 and you ah^ays perceive the hedge roses the finest on the sides of 

 land which is too stifl" to be arable land. If, therefore, the ground 

 of your shrubbery be of a very light nature, you ought to move it 



