Rosa sempervirens, Myrianthes, Jaunâtre, Adélaide d'Orléans, and Spectabilis. Every bud will succeed, as no roses grow more freely and after

remaining one season from budding in their nursery,' some nice places must be found for them on the lawn, where, unpruned, unchecked,

they will, with all the freshness of unassisted nature, annually delight the eye of the lover of flowers-those beautiful gifts of an ever beneficent Creator; and may I not add, that the contemplative mind will see in these lovely pendant roses the great charms of humility and gratitude -they seek to abase' themselves, and their beauty is exalted;' they receive from the earth all their benefits, and endeavour to cover and adorn her with their luxuriance.

DECORATED CLIMBING ROSES.

A strange term, for can a rose-tree be decorated? Yes, and I must at once tell how it has been done with these Evergreen Roses-the most vigorous and the most tractable of rose-stocksand how it may be easily practised.

A few years since, a friend living at Weycliffe, near Guildford, found the heavily-built brick bridge leading over the railway to his house (this is, however, in his grounds, so as to be private), conspicuously ugly, and he wished it to be hidden by evergreen climbing plants. As the carriageroad ran over the bridge, the gravel, of which it was made, did not seem to offer very happy quarters for any plant but ivy, which was objected to as being too heavy. I then proposed planting it with varieties of Rosa sempervirens, or, as we ought always to call them, Evergreen

Roses. They were with some difficulty planted, the gravel being loosened with the pick, and some manure mixed with it. In my annual visits to my friend living in this charming district-for no part of England is more so-I watched with some interest my bridge-roses. They grew with great rapidity, and soon covered every brick, but when they bloomed in large beautiful masses, some disappointment was expressed at the monotony of colour. I was prepared for this, and told my friend that they must be decorated. good-natured incredulous smile met me with 'how?' I called the gardener, for this was in July, the budding season, went with him to the rose-garden, and thence took buds of some of the most beautiful of the dark Hybrid Perpetual roses, not forgetting some of the bright rosecoloured tints, such as Colonel de Rougemont, La Reine, General Simpson, and some others. great horse' was, I remember, General Jacqueminot. My budding hand had not forgotten its cunning, for did I not consider myself at twenty as the most dexterous and rapid budder of roses that ever lived and was likely to live? So I and the gardener proceeded to place buds here and there in shoots favourable for the purpose. The day was warm, and the thorns much sharper than they used to be forty years ago, so I have a misty idea that my friend Jackman the gardener put many more buds in than I did. To use the

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common phrase, nearly all the buds took,' i.e. lived, and many of them put forth fine clusters of bloom the following August and September. I paid my annual visit to my friend in June of the next year, just eleven months after my budding exploit. As I approached the bridge, I felt full of interest about my buds. What a glorious sight met my eye! Amid the masses of flowers of the pale climbing roses, shone forth large clusters of the Géant, General Jacqueminot, Triomphe des Beaux Arts, Prince Noir, Comte Bobrinsky, Louise Peyronny, Colonel de Rougemont, Jules Margottin, and others; the bridge was a fairy avenue, so charming was the effect.

I have a full and fervent belief that ere long banks and avenues of decorated roses will be in every rose garden, and that their culture will be carried to an extent we at present scarcely dream of. I have one rose friend who has formed his rose-walk with network of iron wire, fastened to upright iron rods; the meshes formed by crossing the wire occasionally are twelve or fifteen inches in diameter, so as effectually to support the shoots of the climbing roses.

This walk, in the course of a year or two, will be between two upright walls of 'Decorated Roses,' and I can scarcely imagine anything in rose culture more beautiful. It must be borne in mind that no arches, unless some fifteen feet apart, and no arched coverings must

be placed over a rose-walk or avenue of this description, for the finer kinds of roses require all the light and air they can have.

For pillars, banks, coverings for walks, and every fancy that can enter into the mind of a rose lover, these budded climbing roses are adapted, and they will well reward the ingenuity of a clever rose gardener; in many cases superseding the use of standards, which are for a great portion of the year so very ugly.

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The 'how to do' these roses is very simple. very rapid growth be required, the place in which they are to be planted should be well stirred to a depth of two feet, some manure mixed with the earth, and climbing roses of such sorts as Félicité, Princesse Louise, Princesse Marie, and Spectabile (all varieties of Rosa sempervirens), should be planted in November; if they have strong shoots, they may be tied or fastened up to nearly their full length; if not with long and strong shoots they may be cut down to within five inches of their bases: they will in the following season make shoots from ten to twelve or fifteen feet in length. The first shoots that will be fit to bud will be the old shoots that were left at full length when they were planted; these may be budded in June, and the young shoots that are made during the whole of the summer may be budded weekly till the end of September: the position of each bud must be thought of so as to make a picture really