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palest yellow, cupped ; IS Ingenue, creamy white, imbri- 

 cated, ranunculus-shaped, the first flowers apt to come 

 defective or monstrous ; Triomphe d" Angers, bright car- 

 mine, large, cupped, of weak and rampant growth, 

 adapted for a weeping standard ; Bompone bicolor, small, 

 very double, rich velvety crimson, apt to have an ugly 

 green eye in the centre, vigorous growth ; Tourterelle, 

 bluish dove-colour, on the outer petals fading to slaty 

 grey; M6r daunt Delaunay, pruned long or scarcely at 

 all, produces garlands and bouquets of small blush roses 

 fading to white, of very pleasing effect. The above may 

 be depended on as excellent varieties. 



Of Climbing Boses, useful for pillars, temples, veran- 

 dahs, and running over the front of a cottage, there are 

 several groups. The Boursault Boses, B. Alpina, the 

 Alpine or Thornless Boses, are very distinct. They are 

 perfectly hardy, of exuberant growth if well fed, and 

 afford a good foundation on which to bud other varieties y 

 either as standards or trained against a wall. The 

 Crimson Boursaidt, or Amadis, has an abundance and a 

 long succession of semi-double effective flowers, and 

 makes a gay covering for an arbour or a rustic arch. The 

 Blush Boursaidt, or Calypso, or Be VIsle, or Florida, or 

 the White Boursaidt, is still more rampant. Its perfect 

 bloom is extremely beautiful, very double, of delicate 

 texture, deep blush, in the centre, shaded to white out- 

 side ; but the majority of flowers produced are imperfect 

 and misshapen, as if seme one had burst by a kick of the 

 foot a cambric handkerchief rolled tight into a ball. 

 These are the two leading types ; other Boursaults are 

 Drummond^s Tliornless, JElegans, Gracilis and Inermis, 

 all of them different shades of rosy crimson and cherry- 

 colour. As standards, they make enormous heads, which 

 become pendent and weeping if allowed to run on. 



The Ayrshire Boses — B. arvensis — are nearly as vigo- 

 rous as the preceding, quite as hardy, and will serve the 

 same purpose. They are mostly shades of blush and white. 

 Bosa Buga, or the Double Ayrshire, the Queen of the 

 Belgians, the Dundee Bambler, and Splendens, are the best 

 of tnese, and very elegant they are in their peculiar style. 



