THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



own roots, the trials were necessarily made 

 with good plants grafted on the Dog Rose, 

 but all my experience tends to show that 

 with many of the best kinds I should have 

 been more successful with plants raised 

 from cuttings struck in the open air in 

 autumn. A simple way is that pursued 

 by cottage gardeners, of putting in cut- 

 tings in a bed in the open air without 

 protection except inserting the cuttings 

 sideways, in which way they strike more 

 surely. If there are cloches to spare or 

 hand-lights the result is more certain. A 

 great point is to put the cuttings in where 



plants of quite different countries and 

 natures. To be quite fair to all these 

 beautiful Roses they should be tried in 

 both ways, and not for one year only. 

 The following list of kinds includes quite 

 the best, though these will be found to 

 vary in excellence in different gardens, 

 as well as in different seasons : — 



Anna Oliver, Bridesmaid, Caroline 

 Kuster, Catherine Mermet, Countess 

 de Nadaillac, Corallina, Devoniensis, 

 Ernest Metz, Ethel Brownlow, Etoile de 

 Lyon, Francois Dubreuil, Franciska 

 Kruyer, General Schablikine, Golden 



Buds of Tea Rose, Anna Olivier 



we wish the plants to grow. Another is 

 not to let the little plants flower— they 

 try to do so very early, and this must be 

 prevented by constant pinching. If Tea 

 Roses were struck in this way for a year 

 or two, we should get a stock of healthy 

 plants on their own roots, which we could 

 soon compare fairly with the Roses on the 

 various stocks of Manetti, Dog Rose, or 

 other kinds. I feel certain now that 

 many of the kinds I have lost, or that 

 bloomed feebly and died out, were the 

 result of grafting, or arose from the 

 stock itself and conflict of the saps of 



Gate, Georges Nabonnand, Hon. Edith 

 Clifford, Innocent Pirola, Jean Ducher, 

 Lady Roberts, Ma Capucine, Mdlle. 

 Jeanne Philippe, Mme. Badin, Mme 

 Berkeley, Mme. Chedane Guinoisseau, 

 Mme. Cusin, Mme. de Watteville, Mme. 

 Falcot, Mme. Hoste, Mme. Lambard, 

 Mme. Vermorel, Maman Cochet, Maman 

 Cochet, white, Marie Van Houtte, Medea, 

 Mrs. E. Mawley, Muriel Graham, Niphe- 

 tos. Papa Gontier, Perle des Jardins, 

 Princess Beatrice, Princess of Wales, 

 Rubens, Souvenir de S. A. Prince, S. de 

 Catherine Guillot,S. de Elise Vardon,S. de 



