154 A BOOK ABOUT ROSES. 



There are, doubtless, several other Hybrid Perpetual 

 Roses which may be grown as successful specimens of the 

 Pillar Rose, but I have only enumerated those which I 

 have proved. Charles Lefebvre, Francois Lacharme, and 

 Madame Rivers, for example, have been commended by 

 some Rosarians for the purpose, but they have not suc- 

 ceeded with me in that special department, though, of course, 

 I grow them abundantly, and shall presently speak their 

 praise. Again, I have not included among the single speci- 

 mens certain varieties, as beautiful perhaps as any which are 

 there, but more appropriate to form centrepieces of beds ; 

 to be placed at the back of beds, or on either side of walks 

 with other Roses ; because, only blooming once, they are 

 wont to look conspicuously dreary, in solitude and separa- 

 tion, when their summer flowers have fallen. No Rose- 

 trees can be more admirably adapted for the pyramidal 

 form, owing to their luxuriant growth and bloom, than — 



Blairii 2, a perplexing title (transposed to " Bleaiy Eye" by a cottager of my 

 acquaintance), until we receive the explanation that the Rose was one of two 

 seedlings raised by Mr Blair of Stamford Hill, near London. No. I, though 

 once eulogised (see Sweet's British Flcnver-Gardeii, vol. iv. p. 405) as "this 

 splendid Rose," is worthless ; but No. 2, with its large globular flowers, the 

 petals deepening from a most delicate flesh-colour without to a deep rosy 

 blush within, is a gem of purest ray serene. A bloom of it, cut from the tree 

 before it was fully expanded, in the intermediate state between a bud and a 



