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THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
December 18. 
middle or end of August should be cut right out at the 
last looking over in the autumn. The nurserymen have 
three or four more kinds of Banksians, hut I can say 
nothing about them, having never seen a leaf of them. 
Any one, however, who has a healthy plant of either the 
white or yellow, might very easily prove these newer 
ones by getting a small plant of each, and budding i'rom 
them on some of the more healthy shoots of the old 
ones, and taking the precaution to bud towards the ex¬ 
tremity of an old branch, and not pruning the new kind 
till it flowers. 
Grevillii Roses. —These are called Multiflora in books. 
There are only two of them worth growing—the Scarlet 
Greville and the Seven Sisters. Of the two we prefer 
the Sisters. When it does well it is a very pretty rose 
indeed, but it requires a good, warm, dry autumn to 
bring it out well, and to ripen the wood. I have tried 
it more than once as a pillar rose, but never succeeded 
well with it: it must have a south wall to have it in 
perfection. The flowers come in large bunches, and 
after a time, as they go on fading, they assume so many 
tints, that some one counted seven distinct shades in 
one bunch, and called it the Seven Sisters rose on that 
account. 
Laure Davoust, a most beautiful rose, is now classed 
with the Multifloras, but it has more of the blood of a 
hardy Noisette. Of all the climbing roses Laure JJavoust 
is my own peculiar favourite; for many years one of it 
in the rosary at Shrubland, trained against an iron arch, 
used to be the most beautiful rose 1 ever saw, but the 
hard winter and spring two years ago almost killed it; 
and I am quite sure we must have it budded on one of 
the evergreen climbers before we make sure of it against 
such mishaps. 
There is another class of climbing roses, called Prairie 
roses in America; but, like the old Blaclc Noisette of 
American origin, they must go through some generations 
of special crossing before we can do much with them. 
The two best of them are the Pride of Washington, and 
Queen of the Prairies; both require a wall. 
Macartney Roses. —The old double white Macartney, 
or Cigar rose, as we call it in the country, is the strongest 
and most evergreen rose we have. It grows to an enor¬ 
mous size where the soil suits it. My predecessor at 
Shrubland Park planted a full selection of all the climb¬ 
ing roses, and in thirteen years the Cigar rose has 
attained to double the strength of any one of them. 
The border for it is only thirty inches wide, and the 
depth nearly too feet, all cut out of the solid chalk; the 
length is considerable, and several other climbing roses 
are planted all along. The plants are trained against a 
sloping bank, such as I have more than once strongly 
recommended; the slope of the bank is about eight or 
nine leet, and on the top of it is a low wall of open 
ornamental stone work, forming one side of a terrace. 
When it rains, the whole that falls on the stone work, 
and on the slope, must glide down into the narrow 
border ; and one might think that a few hours’ rain 
would flood it, and render it useless for any gardening 
purpose. Not so, however; for I firmly believe that if 
it were to rain from December to October, the whole 
would pass away as fast as it entered—tire chalk under 
it, and on both sides, being like an open sieve. I have 
stated all this in order to show that the Cigar rose, 
which has outstripped all others in strength, does so 
under peculiar circumstances. 
Of all the roses, with the single exception of Mi- 
crophylla, the Macartney has the most beautiful leaves. 
They are as glossy as the back of a raven, and they keep 
longer green than those of any other rose, yet I fear to 
recommend the plant to young beginners, for whom my 
notes are chiefly directed. It blooms in myriads, and 
down to the end of October, but not one out of ten 
thousand of them ever opens properly. The flowers are 
pure white, and as double as they can be, and, if they 
would but open freely, the Macartney would be the best 
of all roses to plant against the south front of a house. 1 
I. do not remember to have ever seen a fly on it, and j 
that is a very high recommendation for any plant we j 
desire to have trained against a house. The Glycine , 
sinensis, the Passion-flowers, Tacsonias, and Chimonanths, < 
are the only other plants suitable for training against , 
our dwellings, which occur to me at present, which are i 
always free from insects. The Jasmines are generally 
as clean, but if they get stunted from want of water, or 
from very poor soil, the fly will take to them directly. 
When we shall get into the right way of using glass 
economically for different purposes in the garden—that 
is, without the Tom-foolery of patent laws—we shall 
have a glass front, or a glass roof, to bring out the 
beauties and sweetness of our Tea-scented roses, and 
tender climbing ones, and then none of them will pay 
us more freely than this Macartney or Cigar rose; and 
notwithstanding our aversion to the nasty smell of 
tobacco, I never heard even a lady say, that the smell 
of a cigar was disagreeable on a frosty day, if the 
smoker was a good way off, and that is exactly the smell 
of this rose. Who can say, if we were to get it to open 
well under a glass case, and dry the leaves as we do 
those of the sweet roses, that they woidd not come in 
for smoking instead of the best Havanuahs, at any 
rate, I should consider the project a better subject for a 
patent than glass lights, alias glass walls ! 
There is a single white Macartney which, on a fine 
season, produces ripe pollen, and few roses promise 
better to cross, owing to its beautiful foliage, and flow¬ 
ering so late. For any other purpose the single one is 
not worth growing. Maria Leonida is a fine seedling of 
the Macartney, with white flowers, not quite so double 
as those of tbe Cigar rose, but they open quite freely, 
and the plant can be recommended for the sake of 
variety, it is, if any thing, less hardy than the old 
double one, and it does not attain one-fourth of its size 
or strength, at least in ten or a dozen years. It is well 
suited for planting against the south side of a low wall 
or sloping bank. 
Rosa Microphylla, or the small-leaved rose, seems 
to have got almost out of cultivation, and that because 
we do not understand the right way of managing 
it. Its beautiful, small, shining leaves are the pret¬ 
tiest of all the roses, and the fly will not touch it. The 
flowers are as beautiful as any rose can be—a red¬ 
dish pink, with lighter bottoms, and, when well 
managed, it blooms most profusely, and late in the 
autumn. I once heard an anecdote about one of our 
best rose-growers having seen a splendid plant of it in 
full bloom, against a wall at a little distance, and he 
mistook it for some new shrub, quite different from a 
rose. I saw the same plant in the dead of winter, with- j 
out a leaf, and newly pruned, and I was as much at 
fault as the great rose-grower, although I had examined 
the rose with a determination to make out what it could 
be. That plant is in Suffolk, and is the only one of the 
sort I ever saw treated in the right way. If betting 
were respectable, I would lay a crown that, if Mr. 
Errington himself saw this plant next February, at a 
short distance, he w T ould take it to be a trained mulberry, ■ 
for that is the nearest tree that I can compare it to. It j 
covered eighteen feet of an eight-feet-high wall, and was ! 
trained fan-fashion, the main branches being about ten 
inches apart. The rough old bark was peeled off every 
winter, and the spurs were very closely pruned. These 
spurs were as thickly set along the branches as I ever 
saw on an old-fashioned pear tree. 1 was told that 
every tuft of spurs produced from five to twelve flower¬ 
ing shoots every summer, and when the whole were in 
bloom it must have been a “ sight” to see them. Now 
here is a much-neglected rose, although I am quite sure it 
