laced beneath them.

Those which may be so planted are;--Wood Anemone.--Common Arum.--Deadly
Nightshade--Indian ditto.--Chinese Clematis--Upright ditto--Woody
Strawberry--Woody Geranium.--Green Hellebore.--Hairy St. John's
Wort.--Dog's Violet.--Imperial Fritillaria--The common Oxalis, and some
other bulbs.--Common Hound's Tongue.--Common Antirrhinum.--Common
Balsam.--To these may be added many of the orchidaceous plants.

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ROSES.

THE ROSE, ROSA, _Gul_ or _gulab_: as the most universally admired,
stands first amongst shrubs. The London catalogues of this beautiful
plant contain upwards of two thousand names: Mr. Loudon, in his
"_Encyclopaedia of Plants_" enumerates five hundred and twenty-two, of
which he describes three species, viz. Macrophylla, Brunonii, and
Moschata Nepalensis, as natives of Nepal; two, viz. Involucrata, and
Microphylla, as indigenous to India, and Berberifolia, and Moschata
arborea, as of Persian origin, whilst twelve appear to have come from
China. Dr. Roxburgh describes the following eleven species as
inhabitants of these regions:--

Rosa involucrata,
-- Chinensis,
-- semperflorens,
-- recurva,
-- microphylla,
-- inermis,
Rosa centiflora,
-- glandulifera,
-- pubescens,
-- diffusa,
-- triphylla,

most of which, however, he represents to have been of Chinese origin.

The varieties cultivated generally in gardens are, however, all that
will be here described.

These are--

1. The _Madras rose,_ or _Rose Edward_, a variety of R centifolia, _Gul
ssudburul_, is the most common, and has multiplied so fast within a few
years, that no garden is without it, it blossoms all the year round,
producing large bunches of buds at the extremities of its shoots of the
year, but, if handsome, well-shaped flowers are desired, these must be
thinned out on their first appearance, to one or two, or at the most
three on each stalk. It is a pretty flower, but has little fragrance.
This and the other double sorts require a rich loam rather inclining to
clay, and they must be kept moist.[138]

2. The _Bussorah Rose_, R gallica, _Gulsooree_, red, and white, the
latter seldom met with, is one of a species containing an immense number
of varieties. The fragrance of this rose is its greatest recommendation,
for if not kept down, and constantly looked to, it soon gets straggling,
and unsightly, like the preceding species too, the buds issue from the