DECORATIVE ROSES 



OF Exhibition Roses Tea Roses are on the whole the 

 most decorative, but all varieties are by no means equal 

 in this respect. Some of these kinds whose blooms are 

 of the greatest excellence from the exhibition point of 

 view, such as Comtesse de Nadaillac, are by no means 

 the most decorative from the garden point of view. 

 The kinds which may justly claim to have the greatest 

 decorative value are such as have strong constitutions, 

 free growth, and continuity of blooming. It should be 

 remembered that Tea Roses, far from being delicate, are 

 in many respects hardier than hybrid perpetuals. If we 

 are to get the greatest value from these Roses which we 

 grow from the decorative or garden point of view we 

 must give them very different treatment from that which 

 we should give to plants grown with a view to the 

 exhibition table. They must be much less pruned, 

 much less molly-coddled, and generally much more let 

 alone. Different varieties need different situations, of 

 course, some being suitable for walls, others for 

 pergolas, others for beds and borders. I agree with 

 Mr Kant that every garden of ordinary dimensions must 

 provide space for some Roses, and where practicable beds 

 of Roses in which may be planted in groups of one 

 variety such charming and continuous bloomers as 

 Souvenir de Catherine Guillot, Anna Olivier, George 

 Nabonnand, Madame Chedane Guinoisseau, and others 

 of similar habit of growth, bearing in mind always that 

 the colours must harmonise. 



If planted in borders the taller growing ones should 



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