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Ranunculus, musk cluster^ pure white, very double ; flowers 

 in very large clusters. 



CLIMBING ROSES THAT BLOOM ONLY ONCE IN THE 



SEASON. 



Under this head, we will have to place several roses from 

 very different countries, but all agreeing in habit and flower- 

 ing disposition. Our readers will now be fully impressed 

 with the knowledge that all roses of luxuriant growth require 

 copious nourishment. Such is the case with many of those 

 we are now about to describe ; but others of them will grow 

 and bloom most beautifully perfect even on the poorest of 

 soil, and are very capable of covering rock-work, a sterile 

 bank, or naked wall, or any disagreeable object, where it is 

 not convenient to excavate for the purpose of introducing 

 nutritious soils; and several of them are of such a hardy 

 nature that they will withstand the utmost severity of our 

 Northern States ] others are more delicate, and can only bear 

 the mild winters of a southern climate, where they richly 

 display both flowers and foliage, and even retain their foliage 

 during winter, and are evergreens for screening disagree- 

 able objects or covering arbors. The best of the united 

 groups are 



(f) * Ayrshire tea-scented, or Rosa Ruga, delicate blush, 

 flowers very compact and perfectly double ; it is a free- 

 grower and an excellent pillar rose, with a delightful 

 fragrance. There are several others of the Ayrshire 

 Rose, under very tempting names, such as Double 

 Crimwn, Mottled, Eclipse, Ayrshire Queen, Elegans, 

 &c. These may do for those who wish a multiplicity 

 of names ; but will not take with our floral public, 

 who wish every plant to have some merit as well as 

 a name to recommend it. 



Boursalt, white, Rose de Lisle, Boursalt Florida, Calypso, 

 Pompone Florid'a, and Bengal Florida, &c., for it 

 is known by all these names, and I have imported it 

 four times, under different names ; it is a blush white, 



' ' * Those marked thus (r) will do admirably for rock- work. 



