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in autumn. No one can tell how beautiful all these Roses are as 
standards; they are nearly evergreen, and every season are they 
covered with their peculiarly neat and very double flowers ; and in 
two or three years, their pendulous branches, waving with every 
breeze, reach the ground. The lover of Roses may sit under the 
shade of a Rose-^rec, and luxuriate in the contemplation of the varied 
beauties of nature assisted by art. 
It will be seen that nearly all the foregoing are remarkable for 
the delicacy of their tints : some one will perhaps exclaim, “ There 
is not enough variation in colour; give us more colour!” Well, 
then, let us turn to the most gorgeous of Roses. 
The Rose Amadis, or Crimson Boursault, as a Standard Rose is 
quite unrivalled ; it is also one of the first to gladden us in “ the 
merry month of June ;” and when cultivated as a standard in rich 
soils, not content with giving its brilliant crimson flowers (perhaps 
the most brilliant of Roses) in the utmost profusion, it continues to 
bloom at intervals nearly all the summer and autumn ; but in June 
its branches are weighed to the ground with their splendid burden, 
arresting the attention of the most indifferent. I am not writing of 
what will or may be ; for some trees, now from four to six years old, 
growing here, deserve more than my pen can convey. Their stems 
are eight inches in girth, and their heads spread over a space ten 
feet in diameter. How magnificent would be an avenue of standards 
of this Rose! 
The Boursault Gracilis, with flowers of a bright pink, cupped, 
and beautifully formed, is equally eligible as a tall standard ; its 
branches are thorny, and more rigid than those of the preceding; 
it comes into bloom a few days after it, and soon forms a fine 
spreading tree. Boursault Inermis has flowers of a rather deep 
and bright red; this has the same luxuriant growth, and, like the 
above, will soon make a tree of large size. 
To make a collection of Standard Climbing Roses complete, 
we must enlist a few of the Ayrshire Roses, for a reason which I 
shall hereafter give ; and among these. Rennet’s Seedling, or Rosa 
Thoresbyana, which covers itself with its very double flowers of 
the purest white, deserves a place. The Dundee Rambler also is 
a most robust-growing and beautiful variety; the outer petals of 
its flowers are often tinted with pink. Ruga, not quite so grace¬ 
fully pendulous as some above enumerated, is exceedingly pretty, 
with its delicate flesh-coloured blossoms, which are slightly fra¬ 
grant; and Splendens, with its large globular flowers of creamy 
white, is remarkably and elegantly so; its branches have so much 
grace, waving with every breeze, that the eye is at once attracted. 
These few varieties I have described bloom in succession nearly as 
follows:—first, the Crimson Boursault, and then Boursault Gracilis 
and Boursault Inermis; Rennet’s Seedling and the other Ayrshires 
trip merrily along, scarcely in the rear; and then our more steady 
and enduring friends, the varieties of Rosa Sempervirens, with their 
slow'ly-fading flowers and never-fading leaves. 
If Standard Climbing Roses are purchased, supposing they are 
