78 ROSES FOR ENGLISH GARDENS 



never a pruning knife or gardener's shears to mar 

 their native grace. 



The Banksian Roses must have the first place for 

 beauty and abundance, though only the big white 

 R. B. Fortunei is fairly perpetual, and decks its glossy 

 evergreen foliage with isolated flowers through the 

 whole winter. The single yellow Banksian Rose, in- 

 troduced not more than twenty years ago from Italy, 

 and first admired in Sir Thomas Hanbury's well- 

 known garden at La Mortola, deserves a special notice, 

 because it is fully three weeks earlier than the double 

 forms in spring, and gives a delightful summer 

 effect in the month of March in sunny situations, 

 and is even more rampant and floriferous than any 

 other member of the family, becoming a real tree 

 itself. 



There are two forms of the double yellow Banksian 

 Rose. For richness of colour and beauty of flowering 

 spray I think Jaune decidedly the best, and indeed, 

 for its period of flower, the most effective of all. The 

 second and less well known form — that I know as 

 Jaune serin — has larger, paler flowers on longer 

 stems, is decidedly less brilliant in effect, but has 

 just the same delicate perfume the small double white 

 exhales, and which is curiously enough denied by 

 many people who are appreciative of other scents. 



The common double white Banksian Rose is the 

 most abundant and ubiquitous of all, and is as much 

 the ornament of trees, walls, pergolas, and pillars in 

 the month of April and early May as the common 

 Ivy is in more northern climates. It is everywhere, 



