OLD-WORLD ROSES 119 



exhibited at the Temple Show. The Hybrid Chinese 

 make splendid pillar roses and standards. Other beautiful 

 varieties of this group are Blairii No. 2, one of the loveliest 

 of old roses ; Chenedole, Coupe d'Hebe, and Madame 

 Plantier. In pruning, leave the young growths three or 

 four feet long, even longer if grown as pillar roses, and 

 cut away old shoots freely at the end of July. Then 

 there are the 



Moss Roses, so rarely seen now in modern gardens, 

 to which reference is made in another chapter. 



Allied to the Moss roses are the Provence or 

 Cabbage Roses. The old Cabbage rose is admitted to 

 be the most fragrant of all roses, and the plants are 

 remarkably long lived. I have heard of beds of this 

 rose over eighty years old. The Crested Provence 

 has beautiful fern-like growths surrounding the buds 

 and blossoms. In alluding to Provence roses, one must 

 not forget the Miniature Provence, De Meaux, one of 

 the tiniest of blossoms, and used for edging rose beds. 

 Moss and Provence roses require rather hard pruning, 

 and old shoots should be cut out in July. Manure should 

 be given every autumn, and liquid manure during 

 summer. Among the 



Damask Roses is the true York and Lancaster, 

 a variegated rose, not especially beautiful, and really 

 scarcely worth growing except for its old-world charm. 

 A much more beautiful sort is Rosa Mundi, now generally 

 sold as York and Lancaster. This has big, wide flowers, 

 crimson with broad splashes of white. The old Crimson 

 Damask, from which it " sported," is also a charming 



