CHARACTERISTICS OF A FINE ROSE. 
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6. The blooming shoots should not exceed twelve inches before 
fchey flower. 
w . The bloom should stand o .t beyond the foliage, and the plant 
should be compact and bushy. 
We now proceed to a family which we shall designate Climbing 
Roses, and which comprise blooms of the Noisette kind, that is, in 
bunches; blooms which come singly, large and small; flowers early 
and late; and, in fact, which comprise all sorts of roses that grow tall 
enough for training. 
Properties of Clim'bing Hoses. 
1. The petals should be thick, broad, and smooth at the edges, with 
the outer ones curving slightly inwards. 
2. The flower should be highly perfumed, or, as the dealers call it, 
fragrant. 
3. The flower should be double to the centre, high on the crown, 
round in the outline, and regular in the disposition of the petals. 
4. The joints should be short from leaf to leaf. The blooms should 
come on very short branches, and all up the main shoots. The plant 
should be always growing and developing its flowers, from spring to 
autumn, and the foliage should completely hide all the stems, whether 
the plan be on front of a house or on any given device. 
Concluding Remarks. 
Having now travelled through the chief of the families, which 
require separate notices of their properties, the first three properties 
numbered being required in all of them, we add, by way of a finish 
for all, except Moss Roses, that 
The foliage should be bright green and shining, and, though not 
likely to be found in many varieties, it should be permanent, and con¬ 
stitute an evergreen. 
By this, we mainly establish a point in favor of an evergreen. We 
mention nothing about size, because size forms the distinction between 
many roses which have no other difference, and has little or nothing 
to do with the properties of the Rose, except uniformity in the same 
variety. 
