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Twelve desirable roses for pillar training are : Running 
Hermosa, pink; Gloria de Rosamond, scarlet; Fellenberg, 
rosy red; Joan of Arc, white ; Mdlle. Aristides, pale yel¬ 
low ; Phaloe, bulf pink ; Superba, pale pink; Solfaterre, 
yellow ; Triomph de la Duchere, pink ; Washington, white ; 
Celina Forester, yellow; white Microphylla. 
The wild rose, although it soon loses its beauty when 
expanded, is very rich in coloring, especially in marshy 
situations, and has a delicious fragrance. The bushes are 
generally low and the leaves small; but the brilliant color 
of the seed vessels is as ornamental in autumn and winter 
as are the blossoms in summer. A bank or bed of these 
roses would add to the beauty of a garden where there is 
room for them, and cultivation might produce wonderful 
results. The period of flowering generally extends over 
several weeks. 
The old-fashioned white rose, that blooms in June and 
after that is idle for the rest of the year, has a pearly 
iridescence of tint that is peculiar to itself, like the faint 
sweetness which it exhales. The palest of flitting blushes 
seems to pervade its petals; and its delicate, perishable 
beauty, a very snow wreath in bloom, seems a natural prod¬ 
uct of northern New England, where it is found in the 
greatest perfection and apparently most at home. The 
bush sometimes reaches a height of ten feet, and is covered 
with blossoms as with a fall of snow. Pruning in spring, 
instead of in autumn, will keep back the roses until June 
has expended most of her floral wealth. 
The full, satisfying rose odor is lodged in the breast of 
the blushing damask, grown in Asia by the acre for the 
manufacture of rose water and attar-of-roses. This is the 
perfect rose for brightness and fragrance, and, although 
blooming only in June, its sweetness can be made to last 
through the winter by laying the gathered blossoms in a 
handkerchief box, or putting them into a jar with salt and 
