GARDEN ROSES. I9I 



** Ere one flowery season fades and dies, 

 Design the blooming wonders of the next." 



What a change in my garden since, forty years 

 ago, the "old Monthly" and another member of 

 the same family, but of a deep crimson complex- 

 ion (Fabvier, most probably), were the only Roses 

 of contintious bloom ! and now among 5000 trees 

 not more than 20 are "summer" Roses. All the 

 rest Perpetuals, or rather, for I must repeat it, 

 called Perpetuals by courtesy, seeing that many 

 of them score o in their second innings, and but 

 few resume their former glory in autumn. They 

 are, nevertheless, as superior for the most part in 

 endurance as in quality to the summer Roses, and 

 they supply an abundance of the most beautiful 

 varieties both for the purpose now under consider- 

 ation, the general ornamentation of the Rosary, 

 and for public exhibition. 



Before we skim their cream as garden Roses, 

 let us remember with admiration the ancestral 

 cow. For who shall despise those old China 

 Roses, which have brightened more than any 

 other flower our English homes, smiling through 

 our cold and sunless days like the brother born 

 for adversity, and winning from the foreigner, as 

 much perhaps as any of our graces, this frequent 



