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rich soil, and their shoots not cut in. 

 Rosa indica, the Chinese or monthly 

 rose, is the parent of another large 

 family of roses, comprising upwards 

 of two hundred varieties and hybrids; 

 the most interesting of these are the 

 tea-scented roses, and the Noisettes. 

 The tea-scented roses are delicate 

 little plants, with large drooping 

 flowers, and they are supposed to be 

 hybrids between the common and the 

 yellow Chinese roses ; they are 

 rather tender, and should be grown 

 against a south wall in a raised border 

 composed of equal parts of vegetable 

 mould, light loam, and sand. Many 

 cultivators take them up in Novem- 

 ber, and keep the roots in a pot in a 

 greenhouse, or laid in mould in a 

 shed, till spring, when they may be 

 planted out again into the open gar- 

 den. The Noisettes are supposed to 

 arise from a hybrid between the Chi- 

 nese rose and the Musk rose, raised 

 by M. Philip Noisette at Charleston 

 in North America. This kind of 

 rose is very hardy, and a most abun- 

 dant flowerer, sixty or eighty flowers 

 having been produced in one cluster ; 

 it is admirably adapted for standards 

 and for rose pillars. There are 

 nearly a hundred different kinds of 

 Noisette roses. 



The climbing Roses are of four 

 different kinds ; the Ayrshire, the 

 evergreen, the cluster-flowered, and 

 the Boursault The Ayrshire climb- 

 ing Roses, are all varieties of R. 

 arvensis, a trailing plant, which, 

 when left on the ground in moist 

 places, will throw out roots at every 

 joint ; but they are climbers by 

 elongation, stretching themselves up- 

 wards through a mass of hedges and 

 bushes, and covering them with 

 flowers. The branches are in general 

 slender and feeble ; and where they 

 have no support they are apt to be- 

 come entangled with each other. All 

 the Ayrshire Roses grow vigorously, 



sometimes making shoots twenty feet 

 long in one season. The evergreen 

 Rose (R. sempervirens) is a native 

 of the south of Europe, greatly resem- 

 bling the Ayrshire Rose in its flowers, 

 but differing in its leaves, which are 

 smooth, leathery, and evergreen. The 

 evergreen Roses do not make such 

 vigorous shoots as the Ayrshire Roses, 

 and consequently are not so valuable 

 as climbers, but they are much more 

 so as undergrowth, for covering the 

 ground in shrubberies, as they grow 

 and flower freely under the drip of 

 trees. When thus trained the shoots 

 should be spread over the ground they 

 are intended to cover, and pegged 

 down near a joint, which will throw 

 out roots, and the plant will thus 

 grow vigorously. A sloping bank 

 covered with these Roses in front of a 

 breakfast -room window has a beautiful 

 effect. They also look well grafted 

 on low standards of the common dog 

 Rose, as the shoots will descend all 

 round and form a cone or pyramid of 

 Roses. The many or cluster flow- 

 ered Rose (i?. multifiord) is a beau- 

 tiful plant, bearing large clusters of 

 Roses ; sometimes of more than fifty 

 Roses in one cluster. More than 

 three thousand Roses have been 

 counted on a plant of this species at 

 one time. The seven sisters' Rose 

 (R. m. Grevillei) is a variety of 

 this species. The Boursault Rose is 

 generally considered by botanists to be 

 another variety of R. multijlora, but 

 it differs from that species in several 

 important particulars. It is a hard- 

 wooded durable Rose, producing abun- 

 dance of flowers, and growing freely ; 

 the shoots, which are of a purplish 

 red, and almost without thorns, being 

 often fifteen feet long in one season. 

 The flowers appear very early, and are 

 remarkable for their reticulated petals. 

 All these Roses may be made to 

 form beautiful objects on a lawn by 

 training them up parasol- wires, which 



