NEW GARDEN ROSES 5 



Himalayan R. Brunoni or moschata^ with its rambling 

 habit, its pale bluish leaves, and its clusters of milk- 

 white bloom. Then we took up the type Rosa vndti- 

 flora or polyantha, with its vigorous growth and its 

 multitudes of Bramble-like sweet-scented flowers. 

 Then Turner's Crimson Rambler, a plant of Japanese 

 origin, closely related to R. multiflora, took the garden 

 world by storm, for its easy cultivation, great speed 

 of growth, and its masses of showy crimson bloom. 

 Those of us whose eyes are trained to niceties of 

 colour-discrimination wish that the tint of this fine 

 flower had been just a shade different. Brilliant it 

 undoubtedly is, and its noonday brightness gives 

 pleasure to a great number of people ; but if it had 

 had just a little less of that rank quality that it possesses 

 slightly in excess, it would have been a still more 

 precious thing in our gardens. The time to see it 

 in perfection is when the sun is nearing the horizon, 

 and when the yellow light, neutralising the purplish 

 taint, gives the flowers of the Rambler just the quality 

 that they unfortunately lack ; then and then only they 

 show the glorious red that the critical colour-eye 

 demands, while at the same time their brilliancy is 

 intensified. 



From the type multiflora and some of its hybrids 

 as parents on one side have arisen a range of garden 

 Roses of inestimable value, most of them of rambling 

 habit, comprising the rose-coloured Dawson, the 

 charming pink Euphrosyne, the white Thalia and 

 the yellow Aglaia, followed by Leuchtstern, a charm- 

 ing pillar Rose with pink, red-tinted, white-eyed 



