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It makes an effective pot plant, flowering profusely in all 

 positions ; whilst it can also be used as a fountain rose, 

 showing to great advantage in this way on a raised bank. 

 Another good Wichuriana hybrid is Edmond Proust, in pale 

 pink with a carmine centre ; this is also double, with large 

 flowers, and Auguste Barbier is a Wichuriana with buds which 

 open into coral-pink flowers of good double shape and size. 



The Farquhar is a hybrid between the original Wichuriana 

 rose and the well-known Crimson Rambler. This is a strong 

 climbing plant, with the habit of the latter rose, but the 

 conical trusses of bloom are pink, changing to white as they 

 expand. A very beautiful single rose of the Wichuriana 

 type is Jersey Beauty, with specially fine shining foliage and 

 creamy white blossoms, each displaying a mass of showy 

 yellow stamens. Pink Roamer is a very floriferous single 

 flower, but the blooms are smaller, and the colour approaches 

 that bluish shade of pink which is so undesirable ; but Francois 

 Foucard is one of the best of the semi-double varieties, being 

 in yellow, shading to white as it expands. All these fountain 

 roses are new, and but little known as yet, but in a few years 

 they will no doubt be as popular as they deserve to be. 



Then there is a new and fine Chinese rose (R. semper- 

 florens) named Field Marshal, with large handsome blossoms 

 in deep crimson, which still retains the delightful habit of 

 flowering from early spring till Christmas, only to be found 

 in these flowers of the old monthly rose type. This should 

 be grown on a south wall if possible, where it will have pro- 

 tection for its early and late blooms, as these are valuable 

 for cutting. It can also be grown under glass, choosing a 

 cool greenhouse for it or a glass porch, where it will do well 

 without much artificial warmth. 



Another recent introduction of the first class is Golden 

 Queen, a hybrid from Reve d'Or, which retains the extra- 

 ordinary floriferousness of its parent, but has blossoms of a 

 deeper tone of apricot shaded with copper. It is also a 

 rapid climber, and its flowers are double and of good shape, 

 forming a glorious mass of blossom in June. Tea Rambler, 

 too, is very beautiful, having the habit of the climbing 



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