1 8 ROSES FOR ENGLISH GARDENS 



plenty, and the China Roses sometimes in groups 

 of three or four, sometimes singly and some also 

 trained up the wall among and between the Rose- 

 mary bushes. 



The crimson China, Cramoisi Sup^rieur, has long 

 been with us, and also the climbing variety ; both 

 capital Roses in their places. There are one or two 

 others of intermediate colouring. But of the old 

 Chinas (garden varieties, not hybrids) the pink and 

 the Cramoisi are the best. 



The beautiful Fortune's Yellow has been with us 

 long enough to take its place among the older garden 

 Roses. It is also from China and tender, liking a 

 hot wall ; but I have observed that it also likes to be 

 led through some other thin wall shrub that will 

 protect the leaves in May when the late frosts come ; 

 this seems to prevent that falling of the leaves in May 

 which so often happens to the unprotected shoots. 

 But it is a Rose that cannot always be trusted to 

 bloom well. We have to consider it a capricious 

 flower. Sometimes it is loaded with its glorious 

 loose copper-coloured bloom, and sometimes it is 

 almost bare. We have to remember that it is from 

 a climate very different from our own, and that we 

 cannot expect to have it in such complete control as 

 we may be fairly sure of assuming in the case of 

 hardier Roses ; so that when it does do well we must 

 be all the more thankful. 



Coupe d'Hebe, a pretty and sweet Rose of a good 

 full pink colour, is of uncertain origin ; it makes a 

 capital pillar Rose. There are also some old Roses 



