VARIETIES OF ROSES. 



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Paul, " hybrid Chinese blooming in autumn. They are, indeed, fine roses, 

 quite hard)% and very sweet. They thrive under the common treat- 

 ment, and are suited alike for standards and dwarfs, for pot-culture and 

 forcing. 



1891. The following lists give a few of the best varieties of Hijlrid Perpetual 

 Hoses : — 



Earl of Derby, — scarlet, flowers deep rose, 

 tinted with purple ; large and semi- 

 double, producing a fine efiect in the 

 summer— partaking of the Four Seasons. 



Earonne Prevost, — bright pale rose- 

 colour; glossy; a very large, full, and 

 compact flower ; strong, vigorous free 

 grower, blooming freely from June till 

 November. Always opens its blooms 

 well, whether in the heat of summer or 

 the cold damp weather of November. 

 Well suited for a large clump. A most 

 magnificent rose. - 



Dr. Marx, — rich glowing carmine-colour; 

 large and full-cupped flower, and very 

 fragrant ; strong, robust grower, open- 

 ing its flowers freely both in summer and 

 autumn. WUl make a splendid dark 

 mass. A very beautiful rose. 



Geant dea Batailles, — dazzhng crimson, 

 the nearest approach to scarlet in this 

 class ; very free grower, and one of the 

 most abundant bloomers, flowering 

 from June till December, and invariably 

 opening its flowers well. It will con- 

 trast well with any of the light flowers 



which follow. A bed of this under a 

 bright sun is almost too brilhant for 

 the eye to rest on. 



La Eeine, — briUiant glossy rose-colour, 

 shaded with lilac, and sometimes with 

 crimson ; cupped and very large ; has 

 the appearance of a true perpetual cab- 

 bage, but much larger ; strong, robust 

 grower and free bloomer. This, like 

 Baronne Prevost, forms a magnificent 

 clump : a grand flower, weU worthy of 

 its name. 



Madame Laffay, — bright crimson, inclin- 

 ing to purple ; large, cupped, and very 

 double ; very fragrant ; free, vigorous 

 grower, and an abundant bloomer from 

 the end of May to the middle of De- 

 cember : expands its flowers well, and 

 never fails to give them in abundance. 

 One of the most useful roses, and ad- 

 mirable for a clump. 



Standard of Marengo, — brilliant crimson. 



Wilham Jesse, — light crimson, tinged 

 with purple ; very large, double, and 

 cupped ; a large and fine flower ; strong 

 grower : forms a splendid mass. 



1892. The Bourhon Rose, a variety of R,osa indica, was discovered in the 

 Isle of Boiu-bon in I8I7, by M. Breon, who flowered it and sent the seeds to 

 M. Jacques, at Chateau de Neuilly, near Paris. It was growing among a 

 lot of seedlings raised to form a hedge. This parent of a numerous and 

 lovely progeny, graduating from pure white to the darkest tints, has beeu 

 hybridized with the Chinese, with the Noisette group, and with other Bour- 

 bon roses ; and in the latest edition of Mr. Paul's *' Eose-garden" they 

 number 251 varieties. 



1893. The distinguishing characteristics of Bourbon roses are brilliancy and 

 clearness of colour, large and smooth petals, falling in numerous and graceful 

 folds. They are perfectly hardy, and thrive under the ordinary culture, 

 delighting in a rich soil, like most of the roses, and requiring close pruning, 

 except the more vigorous kinds. They are of slow growth, however, in 

 spring, and thus they are best adapted for autumn-flowering roses. 



1894. " The kinds of vigorous growth," Mr. Paul tells us, ''form handsome 

 umbrageous trees, with heads as large as summer roses ; they also look chaste 

 and elegant trained on pillars. The moderate growers are pretty as dwarf 

 standards. The dwarfs form striking and beautiful objects when grown on 

 their own roots. A great many are excellent for pot-culture, and are beau- 

 tiful objects in the forcing-house." 



