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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
There it diffuses through the air a delicious breath, that 
renders a walk beneath the shade of the tall trees doubly de- 
lightful, while its flowers give a gayety and brightness to 
the park, which forest trees, producing usually but incon- 
spicuous blossoms, could not alone produce. 
Some of the climbing Roses, are very lovely objects in the 
pleasure-grounds. Many of them, at the north, as the 
Multifloras, Noisettes, etc., require some covering in the win- 
ter, and are therefore better fitted for the garden. At the 
south, where they are quite hardy, they are, however, most 
luxuriant and splendid objects. But there are two classes of 
Roses that are perfectly hardy climbers, and may therefore 
be employed with great advantage by the Landscape Gar- 
dener — the Michigan, and the Boursalt roses. The single 
Michigan is a most compact and vigorous grower, and often, 
in its wild haunts in the west, clambers over the tops of tall 
forest trees, and decks them with its abundant clusters of pale 
purple flowers. There are now in our gardens several 
beautiful double varieties of this, and among them, one, 
called Beauty of the Prairies , is most admired for its large 
rich buds and blossoms of a deep rose colour. 
The Boursalt roses are remarkable for their profusion of 
flowers, and for their shining, reddish steins, with few 
thorns. The common Purple or Crimson Boursalt, is quite 
a wonder of beauty in the latter part of May, when trained 
on the wall of a cottage, being then literally covered with 
blossoms — and it is so hardy that scarcely a branch is ever 
injured by the cold of winter. The Blush, and the Elegans 
and still richer and finer varieties of this class of roses, all 
of which are well worthy of attention. 
We have to regret that the inclemency of our winters will 
not permit us to cultivate the White European Jasmine, 
