\ rose tree'on the'wall of Hildesheim Cathedral, Prussia, can be traced back with certainty to the eleventh century Its main trunk is 20 inches thick and the* branches spread over the wall to a height of 25 feet. The castle of Chillou on Lake Geneva, in which the famous "Prisoner-'' of Byron's poem was interned, has a very larger rose tree of unknown age, and in the Marine Gardens at Toulon them is one that spreads across a space of SO feet by 15 feet and which has been known to hear 50,000 blooms at the same-time! The biggest rose tree in Europe is in the Wehrle Gardens in. Fnesburg, Germany. -Its stock is a wild rose on which a 'tea rose" was grafted 40 years ago. To-day the bush is 1-0 feet high:
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18456, 10 August 1925, Page 11
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