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their branches are flexible as well as vigorous. Their foliage is also very 
luxuriant and healthy, and their flowers very beautiful, and of delicate and 
clear colours. They require a very rich soil, and when pruned their 
shoots should never be shortened ; but those that have become old should 
be cut off close to the main stem, and abundance of young wood left, as 
shoots two years old always produce the best flowers. 
The following are some of the best kinds of pillar roses :—Brennus, or 
Brutus as it is sometimes called, a profuse-flowerer, the roses being very 
large, of a most brilliant carmine, very finely cupped, and very double ; 
Queen of the Belgians, a pure white, finely cupped ; Drummond's thorn¬ 
less, a Boursault rose, with a profusion of small, pink, very double flowers; 
Rosa Gremllii , or the Seven Sisters, with large clusters of flowers, varying 
in colour, in the same cluster, from crimson and almost purple, to pale 
blush and almost white ; Rosa multiflora , nearly allied to the last; and 
the Triomphe de Bollwiller, a beautiful cream-coloured, or rather pale 
buff flower, cupped, and very large and double, with large glossy ever¬ 
green leaves. To these may be added Jaune Desprez, a very curious 
rose from its singular colour, which is a sort of pink buff. This rose 
is extremely fragrant and very hardy; and, from being a very free- 
grower, it is well suited fora pillar rose. All the Noisette and Boursault 
roses, particularly Rosa ruga , are also well adapted for this purpose ; as 
are the Banksia roses, though they, like Rosa multiflora , are rather 
tender. 
Among the moss roses, the best kinds are, the common, the perpetual 
white (which often blossoms again in autumn), and the Rouge de 
Luxembourg, the flowers of which are crimson, approaching to purple ; 
and to these may be added the crested moss as a curiosity. Of the 
cabbage roses, the common kind and Wellington maybe chosen, the last 
being a very large carmine-coloured flower. 
The other kinds of roses are so numerous and so often changing, that 
little can be said of them; but the following deserve a place in every 
garden. The double yellow Austrian and Scotch roses, and Rosa Har- 
risonia , sometimes called Hogg’s double yellow; Rivers’s George the 
Fourth, a splendid crimson rose, with shining, dark, reddish-green 
foliage, and of very luxuriant growth; the Village Maid, a striped rose ; 
Rose du Roi, or Lee’s crimson perpetual, a most valuable rose, which will 
flower in the open ground from May to November; the common Rose a- 
quatre-saisons; Madame Desprez, an lie de Bourbon rose, which blooms 
in large clusters like a Noisette; Bengale triomphante; Rosa indica (the 
common China) ; Rosa semperflorens (the monthly China) ; Rosa odorata 
(the common tea-scented); and Rosa Smithii (the yellow Noisette), 
