GAEDEN CLASSIFICATION. 



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AmadiS« — One of the best, with its pendulous clusters 

 of large purplish-crimson flowers. 



Blusb. — This has large, double, blush flowers. 



EVEEGEEEN EOSES. 



The original of this class is the Bosa semper \)ir ens ^ a 

 wild rose of Italy. They are very beautiful and desirable, 

 and although not entirely evergreen in this climate, retain 

 their foliage very late in the season. They are very easy 

 of cultivation, and most luxuriant chmbers over naked 

 trees, old houses, fences, and walls, or along the surface of 

 the ground, which they will soon cover to the exclusion 

 of all weeds, and present a large mass of rich, glossy foli- 

 age, and abundant bloom. When thus planted, the large 

 weeds should be pulled up until the plant fairly covers 

 the ground, when no more attention will be needed. They 

 are well adapted for training up columns, and we know 

 of few things more beautiful than a temple formed of 

 numerous columns, with Evergreen Roses growing lux- 

 uriantly upon them and festooned gracefully between. 

 Nothing, indeed, can be more gracefully beautiful than 

 festoons, wherever they can be made. They constitute 

 the chief beauty of the vine-clad fields of Italy, and there 

 would be no less beauty in occasional festooning of roses 

 trained between pillars or the trees of a lawn. They are 

 also very beautiful when budded on high standards, their 

 dark-green glossy foliage weeping to the ground, and 

 forming a fine dome or pyramid of leaf and bloom. When 

 pruned in the ^\'inter, the branches may be thinned out, 

 but not shortened ; for if pruned close, they will make a 

 luxuriant growth the next season, but will produce no 

 flowers. 



F^licit^ Perpetuelle. — A most beautiful rose, and one 

 of the very best of the class ; when properly cultivated, 



