GARDEN ROSES. 1 89 



" Ah me ! what perils do environ 

 The man who meddles with cold iron !" 



seeing that if he is too vivacious with his knife, he will 

 inevitably destroy all hopes of bloom. Let him remove 

 weakly wood altogether, and then only shorten by a few 

 inches the more vigorous shoots. 



We will pass now from garden Roses, which bloom but 

 once, to those which are called Perpetual, which, 



" Ere one flowery season fades and dies, 

 Design the blooming wonders of the next." 



What a change in my garden since, forty years ago, the 

 *' old Monthly " and another member of the same family, 

 but of a deep crimson complexion (Fabvier, most probably), 

 were the only Roses of continuous bloom ! and now among 

 3000 trees not more than 30 are summer Roses. All the 

 rest Perpetuals, or rather, for I must repeat it, called Per- 

 petuals by courtesy, seeing that many of them score in 

 their second innings, and but few resume their former glory 

 in autumn. They are, nevertheless, as superior for the most 

 part in endurance as in quality to the summer Roses, and 

 they supply an abundance of the most beautiful varieties 

 both for the purpose now under consideration, the general 

 ornamentation of the Rosary, and for public exhibition. 



