THE 



GARDENER. 



JUNE 1869. 



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THE ROSE. 



CHAPTER XI. GARDEN ROSES. 



{Continued from page 202.) 



COMMENCED my selection of garden Roses — that is, of 

 Roses -which are beautiful upon the tree, but not the most 

 suitable for exhibition — with the Provence and the Moss, 

 because these were the Roses which I loved the first. They 

 had but few contemijoraries alike precious to our eyes and noses in 

 the garden of my childhood ; — the York and Lancaster, the Alba, the 

 Damask, the Sweet Brier, the old Monthly ; and these also shall 

 suggest, if you please, our route through the land of Roses. 



First, then, with reference to the York and Lancaster — thus called 

 because it bears in impartial stripes the colours, red and white, of those 

 royal rivals who fought the Wars of the Roses — although I cannot 

 commend its flimsy flowers, as gaudily and as scantily draped as the 

 queen of a ballet or burlesque, I must claim a place in the rosary for 

 a few variegated Roses very superior to their prototype. QEillet Par- 

 fait is so truly named that a skilful florist, seeing a cut bloom of it 

 for the first time, would only be convinced by a close inspection that 

 it was not a Carnation but a Rose. With a clear and constant variega- 

 tion of white and crimson stripes, it is marvellously like some beautiful 

 Bizarre ; and Perle des Paiiachees, white and rose, is almost as efi'ective 

 as another gay deceiver. QEillet Flammande and Tricolor de Flandres, 

 though not so striking and distinct — their triple colours, white, lilac, 

 and red, being somewhat dingy and confused — are always curious, and 

 sometimes pleasing. These variegated Roses are easily cultivated, 



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