8l2 



THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



them first, yet there is room for a great 

 extension of their culture in gardens, 

 both large and small. We find even 

 standard works on Rose-growing speaking 

 of the Teas as tender and needing pro- 

 tection. Others say that only in a few- 

 instances can they be grown in the open 

 ground ; and to have them in full beauty, 

 to ensure a constant succession of flowers, 

 and to produce them in all their loveliness 

 and purity of colour, they must be grown 

 under glass. This is not so. Tea 

 Roses may be grown in many gardens 

 where they cannot now be found, and I 

 would urge all who love Roses to try 

 them fairly, for none are more worthy. 

 The variety of lovely tints amongst Tea 



the climbing kinds wreathe the walls and 

 the dwarfs are grouped in beds and 

 borders solely for effect. None, with me, 

 have ever been protected, but winter 

 winds blow furiously over the garden, and 

 on several occasions more than 20' of 

 frost have been registered among the 

 plants. They may be grown with every 

 prospect of success over quite the southern 

 half of England and in many other 

 favoured spots. The dwarfer kinds 

 prefer a soil more light and open than 

 that usually chosen for other Roses. The 

 plants should be either on the Brier stock 

 or on their own roots. The vigorous and 

 perpetual blooming climbing kinds are 

 the best Roses for walls and fences. 



Roses, the delicate odour, the profusion 

 of bloom, the long season over which it 

 is borne, and their charming habit and 

 foliage are great merits. Let us for ever 

 give up the stupid notion of growing our 

 Roses only in a Rosery, in some out-of-the- ■ 

 way spot. The grand Tea Roses now 

 under notice are worthy of the best position 

 in the garden. There are also many 

 excellent kinds for clothing walls, fences, 

 or any other erections about our homes, 

 and we shall need much space if we want 

 to grow all that are good. Here I name 

 all the best Tea Roses, and if we would 

 make our gardens sweet from June to j 

 November, these are what we should | 

 plant. Every kind is described from ex- 

 .perience of it in a flower garden, where 



Many of the climbing Teas may be 

 grown away from walls, which for such 

 hardy vigorous kinds only furnish support, 

 shelter not being needed. Plant in groups 

 of from three to twelve plants where they 

 have room to develop ; a stake here and 

 there is all the support needed, and they 

 will make huge bushes and bear flowers 

 by the hundred. 



Tea Roses for British Gardens. — 

 The undermentioned Tea Roses are the 

 best of the varieties opening well in Britain, 

 and the result of a trial of almost every ob- 

 tainable kind, many thousand plants and 

 for many years, all tried in the open air 

 without protection of any kind at any 

 season. As it is extremely difficult so far 

 to buy strong plants of Tea Roses on their 



