86 ROSES FOR ENGLISH GARDENS 



Tea Roses, which not only bear but enjoy the sum- 

 mer heat and drought, flowering freely in November 

 and December after the autumn rains and pruning, 

 are cultivated not only in gardens, but as a field 

 crop, and the December crop of bloom is the most 

 valuable, so that everything yields to that. To name 

 any but the most valuable is unnecessary here, 

 and, roughly speaking, Nabonnand's catalogue of his 

 own seedlings represents what has been most grown 

 during the last twenty years. Of these, however, 

 many are obsolete. 



Isabelle Nabonnand is one of the few really good 

 winter Roses I have never seen grown in England. 

 One of the oldest, it still is worth growing in any 

 garden. Its blush-centred white blooms are fairly 

 double, and yet open freely through the winter. 



General Schablikine has at last found its way to 

 England. For many years this was the only rose- 

 coloured Tea to be depended on in winter. Now 

 that glass is so much used, and larger and longer 

 stalked blooms are required, it is only used as 

 a decorative garden Rose. Marie Van Houtte is 

 another old Rose that is gradually being superseded, 

 as its flowers obstinately refuse to hold up their 

 heads, but its beauty and freedom make it indispens- 

 able in the winter garden. Paul Nabonnand has for 

 some years reigned supreme from the beauty and 

 freedom of its pale pink blooms in December. It is 

 the Rose that with Schablikine produces the most 

 summer-like effect during the winter. Fiametta Nabon- 

 nand is a very good flesh-white Rose, as indeed are all 



