ROSES FOR ENGLISH GARDENS 



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NEW YORK 

 BOTANICAL 



CHAPTER I 

 GARDEN ROSES NEW AND OLD 



New Garden Roses 



One of the most distinct and wholesome effects of 

 the spread of garden knowledge and love of flowers 

 that has filled the land of late years is the demand for 

 good garden Roses. By the term "garden Roses," 

 is meant Roses for ordinary garden use, though the 

 word has a more exclusive use in the schedules of 

 Rose Societies, where it means any Roses other than 

 those that are classed as show kinds. In this case 

 the more rigid distinction is of use, though in the 

 garden it does not concern us in the least, for it 

 naturally happens that a grand show Rose is often 

 a grand garden Rose also. 



But in the usual jargon of horticulture the word 

 "garden Rose" makes one first think of Damask 

 and Provence or Cabbage Roses, of Moss Roses, 

 of Sweet Brier and Scotch Brier, of Cinnamon Rose 

 and Rosa hicida, of China Rose, and of the old climb- 

 ing cluster kinds ; in short, of all the older favourites 

 that will grow readily in any garden in answer to 

 reasonable care and preparation. 



