14 THE BOOK OF THE ROSE CHAP. 
and his excellent culture of pot and decorative 
Roses, long held a high position in the cult of the 
Queen of Flowers. 
There are many others of high standing, a large 
proportion of whom probably sell as good plants as 
those I have mentioned. And if they have not come 
to the actual front yet as exhibitors, it may be that 
distance or climate, or a disinclination to incur the 
whole expense and trouble of competing in the first 
rank, have prevented their names being chronicled 
hitherto as the winners of the championship. 
Among amateurs the best known and most suc- 
cessful exhibitors are Mr. E. B. Lindsell of Hitchin, 
and Rev. J. H. Pemberton of Havering, for H P:.s, 
and Mr. A. H. Gray of Bath, and Mr. O. G. Orpen 
of Colchester, for Teas, though in each division 
there are others treading closely on their heels, and 
occasionally victorious, notably Mr. Conway Jones 
of Gloucester. 
CLASSIFICATION 
Botanically, the number of actual species of 
Roses is very great, even the wild Dog-Rose of our 
hedges being divided into many sub-species, as may 
be seen from the great variety in foliage and habit 
in the early growths of briar stocks in nurserymen’s 
quarters. Of the cultivated classes, probably most 
Rose-exhibitors will only care to know about the 
two great divisions in which they are interested: 
viz. Hybrid Perpetuals, including Hybrid Teas 
and Bourbons, and Teas and Noisettes. Com- 
paratively few will be interested in the Austrian, 
Chinas, Polyantha, Moss, and Provence races: and 
