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The Banksian Rose is also a most genial stock 

 for the Mar^chal ; and if any of my readers are the 

 happy proprietors of the former, under glass ^ I advise 

 them by all means to bud the latter upon it. La 

 Belle Lyonnaise, Madame Berard, Reine Marie 

 Henrietta, and Reve d'Or, daughters of Gloire de 

 Dijon, but with distinctive charms, are attractive 

 Climbing Roses ; and Lamarque, the parent of 

 Cloth-of-Gold, well deserves a place on some sunny 

 wall, growing very rapidly, and being one of the 

 earliest Roses to charm us with its refined and 

 graceful flowers. These are large and full, the outer 

 petals of a soft pure white, the inner of a pale straw- 

 colour. 



The Roses which I have just described are as 

 capable of climbing as Jack's Bean stalk ; indeed, it 

 may be said that Roses generally may be induced to 

 climb^ if planted in rich soil against a wall, facing 

 south or east. In such a sunny site, the develop- 

 ment of the tree, once thoroughly established and 

 settled down to its work, is marvellous. Not so 

 rapid, of course, nor so extensive in longitude or 

 latitude, as with the more nomad and wandering 

 tribes, but such as to astonish those Rosarians who 

 have only seen a less favoured growth, and to satisfy 

 in time almost any requirements as to the space 

 which has to be covered. In half-a-dozen summers 



