. My garden in summer . ar, has made a great arch of itself, andis reaching down to have another snatch at your nose ;when you go to bend it up to a cross-bar it goes snapin the middle, but a few days later it starts into side shootsall the way up. If caught young and trained as theyshould go these shoots cover a great amount of spacevery effectively and glossily. When first I saw the flowersI thought them lovely with their sharp contrast of rosycrimson petals and lemon-yellow eye after the style ofthat of a Lady Penzance Sweet-brier, but now I find youmust look at half-opened blossoms only, f
. My garden in summer . ar, has made a great arch of itself, andis reaching down to have another snatch at your nose ;when you go to bend it up to a cross-bar it goes snapin the middle, but a few days later it starts into side shootsall the way up. If caught young and trained as theyshould go these shoots cover a great amount of spacevery effectively and glossily. When first I saw the flowersI thought them lovely with their sharp contrast of rosycrimson petals and lemon-yellow eye after the style ofthat of a Lady Penzance Sweet-brier, but now I find youmust look at half-opened blossoms only, for their pinkturns sour in a few hours and proclaims itself a cousinof magenta, and sets ones eye on edge like rhubarb tartdoes ones teeth. I want a tame fairy to live in theJoseph Billiard bower during flowering time to pick offevery blossom as it turns the corner from warm pink tothe hue of weak Condys Fluid. Although I am not hospitable towards Ramblers Icherish their original parent, R. multiflora, which has been 80. SiirniMcr in llie l-lowt-i l!v A. hliirfusc Miirklew Single Roses so well named the Bramble Rose. Our specimen was acome-by-chance, in fact a stock that shot up and smotheredout its scion, and as it was not badly placed we havegiven it a succession of ever-heightening supports untilit owns the greater portion of a felled tree, and we feelwe must now rest contented. It is a fine sight someseasons, depending mostly, I think, on the attention it hasreceived in the previous Summer and Autumn in the wayof the removal of old wood, a judicious thinning andshortening of some new shoots, and tying in others fulllength. The plant well repays such work when it iscovered by the cloud of its wee, bramble-like flowers,each of which might be covered by a sixpence. Another small-flowered, but for all that mightilyeffective. Rose is the little-grown R. SouUeana—a veryclose relation of moschata, though, unlike most of themoschata forms, SouUeana is no climber, but a
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