Monthly Climbing Nabonnand. 



Roses Reine O/ga de Wurtemburg. 



Waltham Climber. 

 Field Marshal. 

 Docteur Rouges. 

 Noel/a Nabonnand. 



The sketch of the Rose Fellemberg suggests the great 

 effect of colour which China Roses may give. It was 

 painted in Scotland in the middle of September, when Hybrids 

 and Teas in the same garden were almost bare. The bushes 

 had been pegged in the spring, so as to get flowers both high 

 and low, and the six-foot-long shoots, crowned with great heads 

 of bloom, were of the summer's growth. It is a Rose that 

 needs sunshine to look its best, as without warm light its 

 tint is apt to be magenta in tone. Close by were beds of the 

 old red Monthly, with deep crimson flowers and shoots, and 

 buds of a fine bronze red ; pure white Roses like the dwarf 

 Polyanthas, either Anna Montravel, or Perle des Neiges^ would 

 look well with these, and there could be beds too of the old pink 

 Monthly and Hermosa. In colouring these two last are the 

 same, but the latter is the stronger grower. 



For a small garden, or some space enclosed perhaps with 

 a yew hedge, or a group of beds under the windows, where 

 perpetual colour is felt to be needed, nothing will prove so 

 prolific as China and Polyantha Roses, but if the whole effect 

 of the beds is to be considered, a choice must be made at the 

 first between shades of rose and salmon pink. Those mentioned 

 above rank among the rose shades, and are undoubtedly the most 

 vigorous, but the following salmon pinks are in my view the 



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