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surroundings, would at once result in a decorative display capable 

 of affording the keenest pleasure. In fact, it is the case, heretical 

 as it may be to state it, that in spite of the unsurpassed beauty 

 of perfect individual flowers of Marechal Niel, it is less decorative 

 as a climber, even when fairly well grown, than many of the fol- 

 lowing roses :— William Allen Eichardson, Reine Marie Hen- 

 riette, Keine Olga de Wurtemberg, a magnificent climber, very 

 perpetual, producing bright crimson flowers, and deserving of 

 very extended cultivation ; Madame Berard, Bouquet d'Or, 

 Emilie Dupuy, Aimee Vibert, Celine Forestier, Lamarque, Prin- 

 cesse de Nassau (musk), Madame Trifle, and the summer roses, 

 Fortune's Yellow, Felicite-Perpetue, Laure Davoust, Splendens, 

 Ruga, the Garland, Alice Gray, Flora, Claire Jacquier, the single 

 Rosa multiflora (syn. polyantha, figured as a climber in the 

 Gardeners' Chronicle for November 26, 1887), Rosa mult, grandi- 

 flora, and the deliciously fragrant Rosa Brunonis (syn. moschata r 

 Crepin). 



Mention has been made of some of the most decorative single 

 roses in the selections given of the best varieties for certain pur- 

 poses ; but there are a few others which ought to be included in 

 every rose garden. The rugosa roses are now so well known 

 that it is not necessary to do more than to insist in passing on 

 the exceeding beauty of the white form ; but among those far 

 too rarely seen are the Austrian briars Rosa lutea, the yellowest 

 rose in the world, and its wonderful scarlet variety, Rosa punicea ; 

 Rosa rubrifolia, with its red leaves, red stems, red everything, 

 including its immense clusters of heps in autumn ; Rosa lucida, 

 also beautiful in fruit at the end of the season, as in flower and 

 glossy leafage during the summer ; Rosa bracteata, the very 

 distinct Macartney rose ; Rosa damascena, the crimson damask ; 

 Rosa Beggeriana, the starry white rose from Afghanistan, ever- 

 blooming, and producing the most brilliant little heps imagin- 

 able ; and last, but not least, a garden variety classed as a hybrid 

 sweet briar under the name of Hebe's Lip, beautiful exceedingly, 

 having large substantial creamy white petals with a picotee edge 

 of purple. Nearly all these single roses only require to be put 

 into the ground and left to themselves to thrive and produce 

 their myriad flowers and fruits, so that for the amount of time 

 and attention that they claim they are very remunerative 

 decoration. 



