RIVIERA GARDEN ROSES 8i 



April, that it is found in every garden, and we who 

 come out from England have a special admiration for 

 its masses of white flower, because it refuses to show 

 its real beauty out of doors in England, and grows 

 too rampantly when under glass. 



Old Roses are, you will see, all my theme, so I feel 

 no compunction in saying that the old Rose, Gloire des 

 Rosomanes, semi-double though it be, is the only 

 perfectly perpetual winter-blooming climbing red 

 Rose yet raised. It is the only old Rose that is never 

 flowerless throughout the severest weather on this 

 coast, and it is particularly brilliant and fragrant both 

 in autumn and in spring when the Banksian Roses 

 need a rich red to contrast with their white and 

 golden-buff tones. It is well known to many folk as 

 the Bordighera Rose, though I do not know it is more 

 abundant there than elsewhere. One of its seedlings, 

 General Jacqueminot, is a household word, know^n 

 and grown everywhere, and there are two more of 

 its seedlings w^orth mention — Bardou Job, which has 

 merit, though it is not a winter bloomer, and also the 

 new Noella Nabonnand, which is a decided advance 

 in size and beauty, and is said to be a really good 

 winter-blooming deep red Rose, a desideratum in 

 these parts. 



We all know the brilliant little China Rose Cramoisi 

 Sup^rieur, but somehow I never saw in English 

 gardens a good specimen of its variety or seedling 

 Cramoisi Grimpant, and this latter is next in import- 

 ance among climbing red Roses, for it will climb to 

 fully twenty feet high, and cover itself with its rich 



