104 PIOTORIAL PRACTICAL ROSE GROWING. 
Their first beauty is in early summer, when the lovely single 
flowers clothe the perfumed pillar of growth from top to bottom ; 
their second in autumn, when the heps have ripened, and taken 
on brilliant hues. ) 
I have referred to the Penzance Briers under pruning; let 
me now tell of a few lovely varieties in my collection. Here 
they are :— 
Amy Robsart, pink, a charming variety, very fresh and sweet. 
Anne of Geierstein, rose, one of the dwarfest as I have it ; very free. 
Flora MclIvor, pink, a very beautiful Brier. 
Lady Penzance, salmon pink (coppery pink by the National list), very early. 
Lord Penzance, white, deepening to buff or fawn, very early. 
Lucy Ashton, rose, a free, bright, and handsome variety. 
Lucy Bertram, rich rose, wonderfully free, the queen of them all. 
Meg Merrilies, pink, a very good Brier. 
Rose Bradwardine, pink, fragrant and free. 
There are others to be had besides these; get them all. 
Grow them, if no better way presents itself, in a bed, each with 
a trio of stakes and a square yard of well trenched, well fed 
ground. 
China or Monthly. 
Varieties, these, of Rosa indica, the blood of which flows 
through the veins of our noble Hybrid Perpetuals. There are 
some old favourites amongst them, to wit, the Old Blush (com- 
mon Monthly), Mrs. Bosanquet, and Fellenberg, the last one of 
the finest of bedding Roses, as Kew teaches us. Amongst more 
modern favourites are Laurette Messimy, rose and yellow, semi- 
double; and Madame Eugéne Résal, rose, shaded with orange. 
Thinning, and a moderate shortening of soft, unripe wood in 
spring, does for these. 
Evergreens. 
The Evergreens, varieties of Rosa sempervirens, are all very 
hardy and strong-growing Roses, well suited for covering walls 
where choicer, though less hardy, varieties will not thrive. 
Félicité Perpétue, creamy white, may be taken as representative 
of the class. Little pruning is wanted. 
French. 
A small class, of more interest than importance. It gives 
us Rosa Mundi (Village Maid), with its pretty striped flowers, 
and the York and Lancaster, which is often confounded with 
Rosa Mundi, although it is not always striped. 
*‘Garden ” Roses. 
The National catalogue has two great classes: (1) Exhibition 
Roses ; (2) Garden Roses. The sub-sections of the latter are 
very numerous, and include most of those named above, to- 
gether with many others. The truth is, “garden” Roses is a 
