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found in flower from early summer until late autumn, 
and the following list 1s so arranged, starting with 
the earlier flowering varieties. 
Gerbe Rose, Alberic Barbier, Gardenia, Jersey 
Beauty, Ruby Queen, Joseph Lamy, Francois 
Juranville, Francois Guillot, Leontine Gervaise, 
Lady Godiva, White Dorothy, Minnehaha, and 
Dorothy Perkins and the type (Wichuraiana) whose 
fragrant white flowers in a mild season may be 
picked right up to Christmas. 
The following varieties are not true Wichuraianas, 
but are often classed as such in catalogues, and are 
useful for the same purposes: Evangeline, Hiawatha, 
Delight and Tausendschon. 
AUTUMNAL FLOWERING OR PERPETUAL ROSES 
The Hybrid Perpetual Rose.——This wonderful 
group seems to have originated from several sources; 
indeed, it may no doubt be said with truth that 
certain strains of almost all other cultivated Roses 
have now been incorporated, by accident or design, 
into some of the members of this wide and varied 
class. It seems to me vain to try and trace the 
parentage of the most celebrated varieties. The 
pedigrees of most of them were absolutely unknown 
even to the raisers, since systematic hybridising and 
careful choice of seed-parents was not practised by 
the French Rosarians who issued our most noted 
strains. Seeds were sown in immense quantities, 
and the cross fertilisation effected by insects or 
other agencies was relied on to produce the variations 
which ensued. 
