SHEUBEY AUTD SUE-SHEUBEY ELOWEES. 



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bloom, the heads of each being more than lour feet 

 through. The successful cultivators would inform you 

 that no great amount of skill was necessary in order 

 to bring the rose into this state. It is perfectly hardy, 

 scrambling over old wails ; but it requires a rich soil, 

 and plenty of room to grow. The Chinese say that 

 night-soil is one of the best manures to give it. Only 

 fancy a wall completely covered with many hundred 

 flowers, of various hues, — yellowish, salmon, and bronze- 

 like, and then say what rose we have in the gardens of 

 this country so striking ; and how great would have been 

 the pity if an introduction of this kind had been lost, 

 through the blighting influence of such ignorance and 

 prejudice as have been shown by the person to whose 

 care it was first intrusted." It would thus appear that 

 even roses, at the commencement of a promising career, 

 are subject to the ill-will of envious enemies, who try 

 to put them down, and to keep them in the back- 

 ground. 



Useful, hardy, and vigorous Hybrid Climbing Hoses, 

 of unknown or uncertain origin, are Madame d' Arblay, or 

 Wells's White, raised by Mr. Wells, of Eedleaf, Tonbridge 

 "Wells, a blush rose, which attains a gigantic growth in 

 strong soils ; the Garland, changing from pink to white 

 after expansion, also raised by Mr. Wells ; and Sir Johi 

 Sebright, raised by Mr. Eivers from Italian seed, which 

 produces an abundance of very fragrant flowers in large 

 clusters, of a light vivid crimson, nearly double. The 

 brilliant hue of the blooms of the last is rare and valu- 

 able amongst Climbing Eoses, as their prevailing hues 

 are white and pale pink. To the above may be added 

 Astrolabe, with very double, compact, bright-rose 

 flowers, and Watts' s Climbing Provence, really a good 

 flower, double, opening well, full pink with the slightest 

 tinge of purple, and richly and somewhat peculiarly 

 scented. 



There are several very distinct species of exquisite 

 Eoses, from insular and continental Asia, which merit 

 all attention as conservatory climbers, on trellises in 



