1 6 ROSES FOR ENGLISH GARDENS 



not thought to be a species, but is considered a cross 

 between canina and gallica. This capital Rose is 

 often seen in cottage gardens, where it is a great 

 favourite. The double white form is the most fre- 

 quent, but the delicate pink Maiden's Blush is a 

 better flower. Lovelier still is the less double Celeste, 

 a Rose of wonderful beauty when the bud is half 

 opened. When once known the albas may be recog- 

 nised, even out of flower, by the bluish colouring and 

 general look of the very broad leafleted leaves. The 

 blue colouring is accentuated in Celeste, and is a 

 charming accompaniment to the rosy tinting of the 

 heart of the opening flower. The albas, as well as 

 others of the garden Roses, make admirable standards, 

 their hardiness and strong constitution enabling them 

 to be grown into quite large-headed bushes. It is 

 no uncommon thing to see standards with heads a 

 yard through in the gardens of cottagers, who also 

 grow some of the Ayrshires in this way. 



Rosa alpina has given us the class of free-growing 

 Roses known as Boursault. Of late years so many 

 more and better climbing kinds have been raised, 

 that the Boursaults will probably be less and less 

 used, especially as the crimson varieties of the 

 Amadis type have a rather unpleasant colour. One 

 of this race, the Blush Boursault, would be worthy 

 of a place in every garden if it were not that the 

 flowers are seldom perfect. Every now and then 

 there is a good one, and then it is the loveliest thing 

 in the garden, with its almost matchless tinting of 

 tender milk-white deepening to a wonderfully pure 



