GARDEN ROSES. 16$ 



by his courier or his coachman to leave the main 

 road, and, walking up the higher ground on the 

 right, to surve}- from the garden of a small resi- 

 dence, used as a pensioti or boarding-house, one 

 of the most lovely views in Switzerland — the two 

 lakes of Thun and Brienz. So v/ould I now in- 

 vite the amateur to survey and to consider the 

 Roses in two divisions. I would describe those, 

 in the first place, which are desirable additions to 

 the Rosarium, either as enhancing the general ef- 

 fect from the abundance or color of their flowers, 

 or as having some distinctive merit of their own, 

 and which, not being suitable for exhibition, I 

 would designate as Garden Roses; and I would 

 then make a selection of the varieties which pro- 

 duce the most symmetrical and perfect blooms — 

 that is to say, of show Roses. 



And I advise the amateur, beginning to form 

 a collection, to appropriate unto himself a good 

 proportion of those Roses from the first division, 

 which, being of a more robust growth than many 

 of the show varieties, are more likely to satisfy 

 and to enlarge his ambition. I hardly think that 

 I should have been a Rosarian had not the wise 

 nurseryman who supplied the first Roses which I 

 remember, sent strong and free-blooming sorts ; 

 and I have known many a young florist discour- 



