l8o A BOOK ABOUT ROSES. 



Of the Moss-Roses called Perpetual, and de- 

 serving the name as autumnal bloomers, Madame 

 Edouard Ory and Salet are the only specimens 

 which I have grown successfully in my own gar- 

 den, or admired elsewhere. The former is of a 

 carmine, the latter of a light rose, tint. 



All the Roses which I have selected in this 

 chapter are desirable in an extensive Rose-garden. 

 To amateurs of less ample range or resources I 

 would commend, as the most interesting, the 

 Common and Miniature Provence, with tlie Com- 

 mon and the Crested Moss. 



CHAPTER XI. 



GARDEN ROSES — ( C07itinued). 



I COMMENCED my selection of garden Roses 

 — that is, of Roses which are beautiful upon the 

 tree, but not the most suitable for exhibition — 

 with the Provence and the Moss, because these 

 were the Roses which I loved the first. They had 

 but few contemporaries alike precious to our eyes 

 and noses in the garden of my childhood; — the 

 York and Lancaster, the Alba, the Damask, the 

 Sweet-Brier, the old Monthly; and these also 



