36 THE ROSE. 
many more Hybrid Chinas and many less 
Hybrid Perpetuals. Raisers dislike to call a 
new variety Hybrid China, if by any stretch 
of the imagination, or from having seen a 
bloom during the autumn, they think people 
can be persuaded that they are getting a 
Remontant. Tocallanew variety a summer 
rose is to sound its death-knell, and no 
amount of adjectives in the superlative de- 
gree can resuscitate or afford it sufficient 
stimulus for more than a brief existence. 
People no longer buy summer roses, at least 
ninety-nine out of one hundred do not, dut 
unless the description of the raiser particularly 
states to the contrary (that they are free au- 
tumnals) they are, all the same, pretty likely 
to get a number of them, and in the course 
of a few years will discover that many beauti- 
ful roses which they bought for Hybrid Per- 
petuals are simply summer roses which oc- 
casionally, or very rarely, grudgingly yield a 
few autumn flowers. Inthis book, therefore, 
many varieties will be found described as 
Hybrid Chinas, which are catalogued, by 
nurserymen, as Hybrid Perpetuals. 
On account of the diverse parentage of the 
varieties in this group, coming from so many 
different classes, there is great dissimilarity 
in the appearance of the different sorts, but 
