A ROSE'S CIRCULATION.
We hear of books and newspapers and such things as having best-on-record circulations. Why do we hear little of the most widely circulated flower or shrub or such beautiful things ? Now and again half the gardening population falls down and worships a particular variety, no one quite knows. why. I am told by the authors of its being that the rose christened " Shat Silk " has been circulated in numbers never recorded of any other variety in the books. It is said to have outdone K. of K. or Ophelia or Madame Herriot, the Daily Mail rose. Whether it has had the vogue of such highly democratic climbers (all " climbers " are not aristocrats) as Dorothy Perkins and the American Pillar, which spread in • a year or two all over the country, I should doubt ; but no bedding rose has surpassed it in popularity or charm.
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