120 THE HTBEID PERPETUAL POSE. 



to make a variegated pyramid. Vigorous growing 

 Bourbon roses may be employed for pyramids 

 and Tea-scented and Noisette roses, as the stock 

 is highly favourable to their growth, but they 

 should be protected in winter by fern or branches 

 of evergreens tied round them. 



Raising Varieties from Seed. 



Eaising new varieties of this family from seed 

 presents an extensive field of interest to the 

 amateur ; for we have yet to add to our catalogues 

 pure white, and yellow, and fawn-coloured Hy- 

 brid Perpetuals, and these, I anticipate, will be 

 the reward of those who persevere. Monsieur 

 Laffay, by persevering through two or three 

 generations, obtained a Mossy Hybrid Bourbon 

 Eose, and many of the finest varieties described 

 in the foregoing pages. This information will, I 

 trust, be an incentive to amateurs in this country: 

 to illustrate this I may here remark that a yellow 

 Ayrshire Eose, now a desideratum, must not be 

 expected from the first trial ; but probably a 

 climbing rose, tinged with yellow or buff, may be 

 the fruit of the first crossing. This variety must 

 again be crossed with a yellow rose : the second 

 generation will, perhaps, be nearer the end wished 

 for. Again, the amateur must bring perseverance 

 and skill into action ; and then if, in the third 

 generation, a bright yellow climbing rose be ob- 



