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with some reservations, be applied to Roses; and 
the H.P.s, H.T.s and Teas, in the wide sense that 
I have mentioned, certainly furnish the finest 
flowers. Still, for old associations some will 
cultivate the Provence (Cabbage) or York and 
Lancaster; for beauty of yellow and copper shades, 
the Austrian; for exhibition of a pot Rose in a 
mass of bloom, the Hybrid Bourbon or Hybrid 
China; for beauty in the bud stage only, the Moss; 
for beauty of foliage and fruit, the Rugosa; for 
prettiness, the Pompons or Fairies; for certain 
forms of bouquet decoration, the Polyanthas; for 
scented foliage, the Sweet-Briars; and for rapid 
climbing, the Wichuraiana, Boursault, Evergreen, 
Ayrshire, or Banksians. 
SUMMER ROSES 
The Provence Rose (Rosa -centifolia).—The type 
here is the old ‘‘ Cabbage’’ Rose, so called merely 
because it is full, with its petals folded like a cabbage. 
It is best grown as a bush, and requires fairly close 
pruning. The original is pink, but there are other 
varieties of this class, white and striped. 
A sub-variety of the Provence is the Miniature 
Provence. These are simply Roses in miniature, 
which should not be confounded with the Polyanthas, 
many of which are quite as small, or with the 
Lawrenciane or Fairy Roses, which being Chinas 
are perpetual. 
The Moss Rose is a more important sub-variety of 
the Provence, the Crested Rose forming a sort of 
link between them. This group, so well known for 
