CHAPTER XVII 



OLD-WORLD ROSES 



Until early in the nineteenth century all the roses 

 grown were summer flowering only. We had none of 

 the glorious autumnal-blooming varieties that to-day 

 make our gardens in September and October so full of 

 delight. But the roses then grown were, above all things, 

 fragrant. Would that our newer roses were equally so ! 

 No useful purpose would be served by describing roses 

 that are not obtainable now, therefore, in these notes 

 on old-world roses, only such varieties are named as 

 can still be purchased. I believe that if we but extended 

 to these old roses the same care that we give to modern 

 varieties, we should be surprised at their beauty. 



Hybrid Chinese Roses. — Rose lovers happening to 

 be in Lyons early in June, should make their way, 

 as the writer has done, to the public park; there is 

 to be found a splendid collection of these old-world 

 roses, all labelled carefully and correctly. There are 

 some of which the individual blooms rival the best 

 Hybrid Perpetuals. Years ago, when these roses were 

 grown in pots, it was not unusual to see plants carry- 

 ing one hundred flowers, all open together, of such 

 varieties, for instance, as Paul Perras, Charles Lawson, 

 and Juno — and within recent years Juno has been finely 



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