NEW GARDEN ROSES 9 



to be used in exposed places where many kinds 

 of Roses would be crippled or would perish. Their 

 strong, bushy growth and somewhat ferocious arma- 

 ture of prickles fits them above all other Roses for 

 use as hedges, and not hedges of ornament only, but 

 effective hedges of enclosure and defence. 



Among the recent garden Roses of great merit is 

 the beautiful hybrid Tea Dawn, also Rosa sinica 

 Anemone, a little tender, but lovely against a wall ; 

 while every year is adding to our garden Roses of 

 the loose, half-double Tea class such good things 

 as Sulphurea and Corallina, whose names denote 

 their colourings. 



Several beautiful species, formerly in botanical 

 collections only, have also been brought into use, 

 while others have been introduced. Among these 

 are R. altaica, described in the chapter on Brier 

 Roses. Then we have R. macrantha, with large 

 pink blooms, and Andersoni, also with pink flowers ; 

 they both make handsome, rather large, bushes. 

 Others of the good wild Roses are dealt with in the 

 chapter on Species as Garden Roses. 



The work of the late Lord Penzance among the 

 Sweet Briers has given us a whole range of garden 

 Roses of inestimable value. He sought to give colour 

 and size by means of the pollen parent, and so ob- 

 tained strong as well as tender colouring and also 

 increased size, while retaining the scented leaf and 

 the free character of growth. It seems as though 

 this eminent lawyer, who in some of the years of 

 his mature practice had to put the law in effect in 



