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The Evergreen Roses — R. sempervirens — are named 

 according to what we wish them to be, rather than to 

 what they are. They have smooth, shining, handsome 

 foliage, which looks as if it ought to be as evergreen as a 

 laurel-leaf ; and the habit of their growth gives you the 

 idea that they certainly might flower all the autumn 

 through. But they don't. The best of them is Felicite 

 Perpetuelle, an elegant climber, with clusters of small, 

 very double, pinky white blossoms. Donna Maria is 

 very pure white, as if the petal's were made of rice-paper, 

 with graceful foliage, but more tender than the above. 

 Grown as weeping standards, they should be suffered to 

 make a cataract of drooping branches, without restraint. 

 Adelaide d' Orleans is not very, if at all, distinct from 

 Pelicite. JBrunonii ha3 the merit of being rosy-crimson. 

 Eeware how you prune any of the above. They may be 

 made to climb up trees, like honeysuckle. 



Of the Prairie, or Bramble-leaved Rose, — R. rabifolia, 

 — from North America, the best perhaps is the Queen of 

 the Prairies ; but florists apologize for them, by stating 

 that "the group is in its infancy." 



The Ranksian Roses, — R. Ranksice, — from China, white 

 and yellow varieties, are half-hardy climbers which must 

 have plenty of space to ramble over, and a sheltered situ- 

 ation. If kept in bounds with the knife, they will only 

 make the more wood, and won't flower. Dead wood and 

 irregular shoots must be rectified with finger and thumb. 

 In all the Banksias, the blossoms are very small, in clus- 

 ters, and very fragrant. Were they hardy, they might 

 be budded on the tallest procurable stocks, to make trees 

 of the magnitude of "Weeping Ashes. For instance, at 

 Toulon, there is a White Banksia? which, in 1842, covered 

 a wall 75 feet broad and 18 feet high; when in full 

 flower, from April to ^lay, there were not less than from 

 50.000 to 60,000 flowers, on it. At Caserta, near Naples, 

 there is another plant of the same variety, which has 

 climbed to the top of a poplar-tree sixty feet high. And 

 at Goodrent, near Eeading, there is a Yellow Banksise 

 which, in 1847, produced above two thousand trusses of 



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