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remarkably fast, climbing to the very summit of trees in a 
short time ; and the flowers, which first appear in June 
are deliciously fragrant. In all its varieties the Honey- 
suckle is a charming plant, either to adorn the porch of the 
cottage, the latticed bower of the garden — to both of which 
spots they are especially dedicated — or to climb the stem 
of the old forest tree, where — 
“ With clasping tendrils it invests the branch, 
Else unadorn’d, with many agay festoon. 
And fragrant chaplet ; recompensing well 
The strength it borrows with the grace it lends.” 
There it diffuses through the air a delicious breath, that 
renders a walk beneath the shade of the tall trees doubly 
delightful, while its flowers give a gaiety and brightness 
to the park, which forest trees, producing usually but 
inconspicuous blossoms, could not alone impart. 
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 
winter, 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 Gardener — the Michigan and the Boursalt trees. 
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 
