1 62 EVERSLEY GARDENS 



July pillars of Laure Davoust a very old 

 hybrid of the original Rosa Multiflora brought 

 by Thunberg from Japan in 1804 bearing 

 clusters of very double flowers varying from 

 red to almost white in enormous quantities, 

 are in full beauty. The old snow-white 

 Madame Plantier a Rose I delight in for its 

 purity of tone and delicious scent is allowed 

 to form grow-as-you-please bushes. Another 

 old favourite too rarely seen nowadays, the 

 hybrid Bourbon Charles Lawson, is treated in 

 the same way. While Rosa Simplex scrambles 

 over a high mass of shrubs, Crimson Rambler 

 walks up a dead tree ; and The Garland, 

 Ftiicite Perpetuee, 'Rennet's Seedling, and all 

 the Ayrshires, trained over arches and pillars, 

 and flinging long wreaths of blossom up 

 trees and over shrubs and walls, make an 

 exquisite and bewildering background to the 

 more modern Hybrid Perpetuals, Teas, and 

 Polyanthas. 



The old Rose 'Eennefs Seedling or Thoresbyana, 

 found among some Briars by Lord Manvers' 

 gardener at Thoresby about 1840, is not as 



