STANDARD, PILLAR, A^'D WEEPING ROSES. 6it7 



tiful hybrid, with lai-ge flowers and beautiful foliage, combined with tho 

 neatness of the double red and white, wuU bloom in perfection. 



201'/. The Evergreen Eose (the climbing wild rose of Italy) is indebted to 

 M. Jacques, the gardener at Chateau Neuilly, for its successful introduction ; 

 the fragrant Lanls^fiora is the result of hybridization with the old ]\Iusk 

 Rose. Donna Maria is of the finest white, with full, dark glossy foliage 

 and very double flowers. Felicite has several names ; its characteristics 

 are large double ranunculus-like cream-coloured flowers. Brunonii, although 

 no true Senipervirens, has more colour than the usual roses of this species. 

 Ja'indtre is a variety with yellowish-white flowers, evidently a hybrid with 

 a musk or Noisette rose. Melanie de Montjose has large flowers of purest 

 while, and beautiful shining foliage of dark green. Myrianthes is a charming 

 rose, of perfect shaijo and most delicate colour. Princesse Louise is a vigorous 

 gTovrer, of a pale rose-colour, very double, and prettily cupped. Princesse 

 Marie bears flowers of a bright rosy pink, beautifully cupped, and blooming 

 in large clusters. Triomphe de Bolwyller, var. Seni^pervirens odorata, is a lij^brid 

 with the tea-scented rose ; its flower globular, large, and very fragrant, 

 blooming in autumn, but requiring a wall with a southern aspect. 



2018. This family flourishes in all soils and situations, retaining their leaves 

 till spring in shaded places. They form elegant and graceful standai'ds, their 

 pendulous shoots soon hiding the stem, and forming in a few years a pretty 

 dome of foliage and flowers. Planted as pillar-roses, as already directed, 

 they require no other pruning than cutting out all dead wood and spray ; 

 shortening, slightly, unusually long shoots, and supplying them annually 

 ■with a copious mulching of well-rotted dung. 



2019. The Boursault roses have long, reddish, flexible shoots, less decided 

 climbers than the preceding divisions, but well adapted for pillar-roses. Blush 

 Boursault, known also by half a dozen other names, is a fine pillar-rose ; so is 

 the crimson. Its clusters of large dceiD crimson or purple flowers are inclined 

 to be pendulous, giving it a fine appearance. As a drooping standard, also, it 

 is perfect. Gracilis is a hybrid of vigorous growth in good soils. These require 

 very little pruning as pillars ; the crowded spray should be cut out, and the 

 long shoots shortened. As a standard, the long shoots are better left to 

 their natural growth. 



1020. The Double- white Banksian rose was introduced in 1807, the yel- 

 low in 1827. Its scentless straw- colom*ed flowers arc, like the white, very 

 small, and double ; but they want its fragrant sweetness. Both bloom in 

 May. A new yellow Banksian (Jaune serin) has large flowers, and is a 

 vigorous gi'ower ; and in 1850, Mr. Fortune introduced a new white Banksian 

 {Rosa Fortuniana), very double, as they all are, and as large as the Noisette 

 Aim^e Vibert, a very fragrant and most desirable variety. 



2021. They are neither adapted for pillar nor standards, but grow luxuriantly 

 on a south wall. They flower early, which exposes them to destruction by 

 the spring frosts. They bloom freely in dry soils, and require careful pruning 

 after flowering : most of the small twiggy branches require shortening : if 



