54 THE ROSE. 
produce flowers in the fall of the year at all, 
unless specially pruned and treated. Those 
which are of moderate growth require rich 
soil and close pruning; such are Hermosa, 
Queen of Bourbons, Souvenir de la Malmai- 
son, and the new Queen of Bedders, all ex- 
cellent varieties worthy a place in a small 
collection. The stronger growers need to 
have less wood removed, but must have 
moderate pruning. The best of them are 
Apolline, Comice de  ‘Tarn-et-Garonne, 
Duchesse de Thuringe, Edward Désfosses, 
George Peabody, and Malmaison. If these 
have the shoots moderately cut back so soon 
as each is through flowering, they will give a 
succession of flowers from June until cut off 
by the frost. Souvenir de la Malmaison is 
the general favorite of this group, but I con- 
sider Apolline as the most valuable; it 
flowers with the same freedom as Hermosa, 
when cut back as directed above, and has 
large cup-shaped blossoms of rosy-carmine 
that are very attractive. Nocollection can be 
complete with this variety left out. 
The Hybrid Noisette Rose (Rosa Notsettiana 
Hybrida) is a comparatively new group of con- 
siderable importance. The varieties of this 
class generally, though not always, flower in 
small clusters and bloom very freely through- 
