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Ruga (with its faint odour of the ancestral Tea, 

 which intermarried, it is said, with the Roses of 

 Ayr), and Thoresbyana — raised, a few miles from 

 my home, at Thoresby ; and among the Evergreens, 

 Adelaide d'Orleans, Felicite Perpetuelle (who would 

 not desire to have a Rose so named upon his house ?), 

 Myrianthes, and Longfield Rambler. 



These Roses are also most appropriate for covering 

 bowers in the Rosarium, or arched entrances leading 

 to it. They are very effective upon the banks and 

 slopes which I have recommended at page 113, 

 flooding them, as it were, with a white cascade of 

 Roses ; and budded upon tall standards of the Brier, 

 they may be soon trained into Weeping Roses — into 

 fountains of leaves and flowers. 



Would that Burns had gazed and written upon the 

 lovely little Banksian Rose ! He would not have 

 esteemed the wee modest daisy one iota the less — he 

 was too true a florist for that ; but he would have 

 painted for us in musical words a charming portrait 

 of this pocket, or rather button-hole, Venus — this 

 petite inignonne^ which, singly, would make a glorious 

 bouquet for Queen Mab's coachman, or, en groupe, a 

 charming wreath for a doll's wedding, such as I 

 remember to have attended once in my childhood, 

 when, horribile dictu ! the bride upon her way to the 

 altar fell prone from our rocking-horse (a nuptial 



