8o ROSES FOR ENGLISH GARDENS 



C^'press, and in three or four years it will entirely 

 cover the tree with a mantle of delicate sprays. Its 

 flowers, lovely in shades of apricot and rose, contrast 

 brilliantly with its apple-green and slender foliage. 

 It is only a spring bloomer, but none the less indis- 

 pensable on account of its grace and beauty. 



R. Cloth of Gold or Chromatella. — A grand Rose, so 

 rarely seen now that it should not be forgotten. Its 

 individual blooms are unsurpassed in size and colour 

 by any yellow Rose, and its December flowers are 

 most beautiful of all when in a rich soil and sheltered 

 position. The fact that its lovely buds bruise so 

 easil}'^, and that it is a special prey to mildew, are 

 the reasons why it is now only to be found in a few 

 gardens where it is extra happy. This is one of the 

 Roses for which this coast was famous until the advent 

 of Marechal Niel entirely displaced it. 



R. Marechal Niel. — " Good wine needs no bush " 

 is specially applicable to this grandest of all yellow 

 climbing Roses, for it advertises itself everywhere in 

 every garden, and by autumn pruning produces even 

 lovelier flowers in December than can be seen in May 

 when grown on sunny terraces. For Rose arches and 

 arcades it is indispensable, and contributes largely to 

 the effect of luxuriant beauty. What a pity its flowers 

 do not hold up their heads as R. Chro^natella does. 



R. Lamargue, with its lemon-centred and lemon- 

 scented heads of flower, is the finest double white 

 climbmg Rose yet raised, although it dates from sixty 

 years ago, and is still fresh, young, and beautiful. It 

 blooms so well in late autumn and again in early 



