34 THE hybhid china rose. 



could compete with Brennus in size and beauty ; 

 but I have no hesitation in saying that, in 

 brilliancy of colour and size of flower, this variety 

 is superior ; the foliage and habit of the plant are 

 also much more elegant and striking; in colour 

 its flowers are of a peculiarly glowing vivid 

 crimson, discernible at a great distance ; it is, 

 indeed, an admirable rose, and cannot be too 

 much cultivated. 



A very old, but almost forgotten rose of this 

 group is Fulgens : its colour is almost scarlet, and 

 a charming peculiarity is that the petals have a 

 shell-like bloom outside, and the inner side a 

 glowing red. The tree forms a graceful and large 

 standard. Leopold de Bauffremont, a bright 

 pink rose, blooming in large clusters, also forms 

 a fine umbrageous standard, as does Triomphe 

 de Laquene, which gives crimson flowers, nicely- 

 shaped. Madame Plantier, a free-blooming white 

 rose, like the preceding varieties, is worthy of a 

 place in the rose garden. These vigorous grow- 

 ing roses form large headed and very ornamental 

 standards ; they are in truth, tree-roses, to which 

 title most of the varieties cultivated as standards 

 have no claim. The true tree-rose is the old 

 variety called the Double Apple-bearing rose, the 

 'Eosa sylvestris pomifera major' of Miller's 

 ' Grardener's Dictionary.' At the commencement 

 of the present century this kind was the only tree- 

 rose of our gardens, with the exception of the 



