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Rose, and blooming both freely and early. It is useful 

 to constitute the attractive flower in the centre of a pretty- 

 bouquet. In pruning, thin out the twigs rather than 

 shorten them : you will thus obtain a sort of weeping 

 Eose. Harrisonii, as it is sometimes called, reached the 

 Old World from America. The Persian Yellow is also 

 a beautiful semi-double briar, which was highly vaunted 

 on its first introduction. It is questionable, however, 

 whether it will supersede Harrison's. It has scarcely 

 bloomed so freely, nor submitted to the restraints of 

 pruning and the proximity of towns with so good a 

 grace : but still deserves a fair trial and persevering 

 attention on the part of the amateur. Persia has yet 

 other Boses to send us, if some enterprising collector 

 will only fetch them. The large species there called the 

 iff ustarund, which grows to a considerable height, throw- 

 ing out garlands of highly-scented flowers, would be a 

 valuable acquisition to our pleasure-grounds : the Mis- 

 keeja is also a very pretty delicate cream-coloured Eose. 

 From a red kind, highlv scented, the best rose-water is 

 distilled. 



The Wliite Rose — JR. alba — is the parent of a very 

 distinct little party, recognisable by their grey glaucous 

 leaves, their vigorous shoots, with smooth bark and stout 

 thorns not too closely crowded, and their peculiar per- 

 fume. They often make handsome plants in moderate- 

 sized towns, grown on their own roots and trained 

 against a wall, a large surface of which they will cover. 

 The Old White is an early and a welcome rose ; its 

 semi-double and single varieties are often to be seen in 

 out-of-the-way gardens and shrubberies, as if the plant 

 had stolen away to the wilderness, and had resumed the 

 habits of savage life. Everybody knows and loves the 

 Maiden's Blush. Celestial is a very beautiful flower 

 when half- opened ; afterwards, its charms diminish. 

 Madame Audot is a fine double creamy pink hybrid 

 between the Alba and something else. Princesse Larn- 

 balle is a lovely pure white rose, sometimes delicately 

 tinged with flesh. The Queen of Denmark is another 



