April.'] CLIMBING ROSES, ETC. 75 
Ranunculus, musk cluster, pure white, very double ; flowers 
in very large clusters. 
CLIMBING ROSES THAT BLOOM ONLY ONCE IN THE 
SEASON. 
Under this head, we will have to place several roses from 
very different countries, but all agreeing in habit and flower- 
ing disposition. Our readers will now be fully impressed 
with the knowledge that all roses of luxuriant growth require 
copious nourishment. Such is the case with many of those 
we are now about to describe ; but others of them will grow 
and bloom most beautifully perfect even on the poorest of 
soil, and are very capable of covering rock-work, a sterile 
bank, or naked wall, or any disagreeable object, where it is 
not convenient to excavate for the purpose of introducing 
nutritious soils ; and several of them are of such a hardy 
nature that they will withstand the utmost severity of our 
Northern States ; others are more delicate, and can only bear 
the mild winters of a southern climate, whei'e they richly 
display both flowers and foliage, and even retain their foliage 
during winter, and are evergreens for screening disagree- 
able objects or covering arbours. The best of the united 
groups are 
(r)* Ayrshire tea-scented, or Rosa Ruga, delicate blush, 
flowers very compact and perfectly double ; it is a free- 
grower and an excellent pillar rose, with a delightful 
fragrance. There are several others of the Ayrshire 
Rose, under very tempting names, such as Double 
Crimson, Mottled, Eclipse, Ayrshire Queen, Elegans, 
&c. These may do for those who wish a multiplicity 
of names; but will not take with our floral public, 
who wish every plant to have some merit as well as 
a name to recommend it. 
Roursalt, white, Rose dc Lisle, Boursalt Florida, Calypso, 
Pompone Florida, and Bengal Florida, &c, for it is 
known by all these names, and I have imported it 
four times, under different names; it is a blush white, 
* Those marked thus (/■) will do admirably for rock-work. 
