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most admired for its large rich buds and blossoms of a deep 
rose color. 
The Boursalt roses are remarkable for their profusion of 
flowers, and for their shining, reddish stems, 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 
are 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 (Jasminum officinale) out of the garden, as even 
there it requires a slight protection in winter. Below the 
latitude of Philadelphia, however, it will probably succeed 
well. In the southern states they have a most lovely plant, 
the Carolina Jasmine ( Gelseminum ), which hangs its 
beautiful yellow flowers on the very tree tops, and the 
woods there in spring are redolent with their perfume. 
The connoisseur in vines will not forget the curious 
Periploca, which grows very rapidly to the height of 40 
or 50 feet, and bears numerous branches of very curious 
brown or purple flowers in summer; or the Double- 
blossoming Brambles, both pink and white, which often 
make shoots of 20 or 30 feet long in a season, and bear 
pretty clusters of double flowers in June. All these fine 
climbers, and several others to be found in the catalogues, 
may, in the hands of a person of taste, be made to 
contribute in a wonderful degree to the variety, elegance, 
and beauty of a country residence ; and to neglect to 
introduce them wmuld be to refuse the aid of some of the 
