all the usual shades of Rose colour. As these are 
produced, in great profusion, at an earlier period 
of the season than other Roses, they are a valu- 
able addition to the flower garden and shrubbeiy. 
The proper treatment of Scotch Roses is very 
different from that of other species. They flourish 
on a strong damp soil, where many of our larger 
varieties would quickly die. They are not im- 
proved, but rather impaired in beauty by being 
budded or grafted on standards ; indeed their very 
compact growth renders them unsuitable in appear- 
ance for being elevated by such means. If stand- 
ards of them are adopted, they should not exceed 
a foot or two in height, and these may be readily 
formed on their own stems ; indeed the natural 
habit of some varieties will produce, almost -without 
attention, low standards of this description ; or, 
they may be thus formed. Encourage the upright 
growth of a strong root-shoot, through the summer ; 
early in the following sjiiing shorten it to the 
required height, and subsequently prune off all 
side shoots that happen to be produced lower down 
the stem, than is required for the head. A com- 
j)act flowering head will be produced during the 
summer, forming a miniature standard of much 
beauty. These little standards, it must be remem- 
bered, never admit of much pimning. Dead bran- 
ches and the points of the shoots may be taken off, 
but Scotch Roses must not be cut back in the 
manner of French and hybrid Roses. They may 
be rapidly increased by suckers; and raising seed- 
lings of them produces pleasing anticipations. 
Sow seeds in autumn. 
