A SIMPLE ROSE GARDEN 139 



How can you tell wild suckers from the desired growth ? 

 At first by following them back to the root until you 

 have taken their measure, but as soon as experience 

 has enlightened you they will be as easily recognized 

 at sight as the mongrel dog by a connoisseur. Many 

 admirable varieties, like Jacqueminot, Anne de Dies- 

 bach, Alfred Colomb, Madame Plantier, and all the 

 climbers, do so well on their own roots that it is foolish 

 to take the risk of budded plants, the worse side of 

 which is a tendency to decay at the point of juncture. 

 Tea roses, being of rapid growth and flowering wholly 

 upon new wood, are perfectly satisfactory when rooted 

 from cuttings. 



Of many well- attested varieties of hybrid perpetuals, 

 hybrid China, or other so-called June roses, you may at 

 the start safely select from the following twenty. 



Pink, of various shades 



i. Anne de Diesbach. One of the most fragrant, 

 hardy, and altogether satis- 

 factory of hybrid perpetual 

 roses. Forms a large bush, 

 covered with large deep car- 

 mine-pink flowers. Should 

 be grown on own root. 



