140 A BOOK ABOUT ROSES 



grey), and broke her bridal nose. The Banksian 



Rose is, indeed, 



* A miniature of loveliness, all grace 

 Summed up and closed in little 



and both the yellow and white varieties — the latter 

 having a sweet perfume, as though it had just 

 returned from a visit to the violet — should be in 

 every collection of mural Roses. The plants should 

 be on their own roots, and those roots should be well 

 protected during the winter months. It cannot be 

 warranted perfectly hardy, but with careful mulching 

 there is scarcely one frost in a lifetime which will kill 

 it. It may be injured even to the ground, but it will 

 come up again with wondrous rapidity. 



Under favourable circumstances, the growth of this 

 Rose is most luxuriant. A French writer on Roses 

 tells us of a tree at Toulon which covered a wall 75 

 feet in breadth and 15 to 18 in height, and which had 

 fifty thousand flowers in simultaneous bloom ; and 

 there are specimens in our own gardens and con- 

 servatories which repress any unbelief in those who 

 have not seen the lovely luxuriance with which it 

 grows in sunnier climes. There is neither height nor 

 width of masonry which it cannot surmount and 

 cover ; and when you see it, as I have seen it, inter- 

 mixed with Bougainvillea spectabilis^ and with the 

 branches of the Judas-tree, and blending its golden 



