THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 193 



TOWN ROSES. 



( With Coloured Illustration of the new Myhrid Perpetual Rose Paul Neteon.) 



S towns increase in number and enlarge ia size, and horti- 

 culture ministers in an ever-increasing degree to the. 

 material aud aesthetic requirements of urban popula- 

 tions, town roses will acquire proportionately more and 

 more importance. It has been a constant source of 

 anxiety to us to promote the cultivation of roses in towns, and of 

 necessity, we are continually inquired of in respect to varieties 

 suitable to endure the hard conditions of town life. In thoroughly 

 close and smoky districts roses will not grow at all, and there is an 

 end of the matter, as regards the central districts of towns, where- 

 in coal smoke permanently darkens the sky. But in the suburbs of 

 large towns and everywhere in towns not characterized by tbe pre- 

 valence of big chimneys, roses may be very satisfactorily grown, 

 provided the amateur goes to work in the right way. Generous 

 treatment is of the first importance, and the real rosarian who must 

 have roses near him in the smoky town, will provide a respectable 

 rosehouse for the purpose. But the open air culture will always 

 interest a larger number than the culture under glass ; and the 

 question will arise again and again, what are the sorts best adapted 

 for the town garden. As in part answering the question, we present 

 a coloured figure of the finest town-rose known. We must have 

 for the town garden roses of vigorous constitution, that flower 

 profusely, and are rarely afilicted with mildew. The variety here 

 figured answers these requirements agreeably, and presents us with 

 an abundance of superb flowers of large size, full globular form, 

 with fine shell petals, the colour deep purplish red, the foliage bronzy 

 green, and peculiarly robust in character. If a rose is seen to have 

 weak foliage, it would be folly to plant it in a town garden. Hence 

 the rejection of very many light roses of good quality, such as 

 Madame Freeman and Madame Lacharme, for they have weak foliage 

 and cannot resist the unfavourable atmospheric conditions to which, 

 in a town garden, they are necessarily exposed. It is really not 

 difficult for the rosarian, who has never had a town garden, to point 

 out such varieties of roses as would thrive in a town with fair treat- 

 ment. 



The vigorous leafage of such as Jules Margottiu, General Jac- 

 queminot, and Paul Neyron, indicate their suitability ; but, of 

 course, in such a case, the a -posteriori is better than the a priori 

 argument. The following we know to be good town roses, and we 

 beg of those correspondents, who have lately written to ask for 

 assistance in making a selection, to accept tlie subjoined list as the 

 best reply we can make to their inquiries : — 



BEST FIFTY ROSES FOR TOWN GARDENS. 



HynRiD Pkri'etuai.s. — Alfred C'ulumb, Anna Alcxiejf, Baroness 

 liothscitihJ, Baronne I'revo^t, Bcaulij of Waltliam, Bu^Ua fie Ncige, 



July. 13 



