IN MY LADY'S GARDEN 



roses for the garden, such as Anna Olivier, a tea rose, in 

 palest pink, with a more deeply tinted centre ; Bridesmaid, 

 one of the loveliest of all flowers, in salmon-pink ; La 

 France, with most fragrant blossoms, in delicate blush-pink ; 

 Her Majesty, in a somewhat similar tint ; the Bride, an 

 exquisite white rose ; Niphetos, snow-white ; Madame 

 Lambard, a lovely flower in rich salmon-pink ; Madame 

 Cadeau Ramey, in a perfect shade of shell-pink ; Solfaterre, 

 a great tea rose, pale primrose-yellow in tint, of strong habit 

 and great beauty ; and many another which has survived its 

 first introduction to become a highly appreciated garden rose 

 of easy growth and much vigour. 



This cannot, however, be said of all the new exhibition 

 varieties, which sometimes disappoint the amateur who wishes 

 for an abundance of roses, for they are in some cases only 

 suited to supply one or two enormous blooms for the exhibi- 

 tion table, and these cannot be obtained without a thorough 

 knowledge of the best plans of cultivating them. But show 

 roses are not always the most desirable in other respects, for 

 many of them are wanting in fragrance, and also suffer from 

 over-production in their early stages, producing a weakly 

 constitution, which quickly succumbs, unless the greatest 

 care and attention are bestowed upon the plant, which seldom 

 survives for many years under ordinary cultivation, and is 

 not robust enough to be satisfactory at any time. How far 

 this weakness is attributable to the process of budding 

 (which enables the raiser to distribute a new rose quickly) 

 it would be difficult to say ; but the fact that the roots or 

 the stock used in budding are so much stronger than the 

 scion induces the formation of suckers and basal shoots, 

 which starve the budded roses unless they are constantly 

 removed, and even then the underground stems thrown out 

 around the stem do not conduce to the health of the scion. 

 This process of cutting up a new rose again and again into 

 u eyes " for budding may be necessary to the raiser ; but, 

 happily, the amateur need not follow the same practice, but 

 will find that roses on their own roots are usually the best 

 for the garden. 



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