ROSES, CLASSIFICATION OF. 434 ROSES, HYBRID, PERPETUAL. 



Abbe Mioland, purplish crimson, shaded. 

 Alfred Aubert, bright red, growth vigorous, free 



bloomer. 

 Archduke Charles, rose, changing to crimson, 



very large and full. 

 Clara Sylvain, pure white, large. 

 Cramoisie Supe'rieure, bright crimson. 

 Duchess, pure white, medium size, but of excel- 



lent form, free bloomer. 

 Fabvier, beautiful scarlet crimson. 

 Mrs. Bosanquet, pale, delicate flesh, free 



bloomer. 

 Old Blush, very free-flowering. This is the 



oiiginal China rose. 

 Old Crimson, deep bright crimson of a dark 



shade, free grower. 



The whole of the China roses require 

 some protection in winter. Nothing is 

 better than some coal ashes over the roots, 

 say 8 inches thick, and a quantity of boughs 

 of spruce, &c., bent over the tops, from 6 

 to 8 inches in thickness. 



Roses, Classification of. 



Taking height only into consideration, 

 worked roses that is to say, roses budded 

 on stems or stocks are distinguished as 

 Standards, Half Standards, Dwarf Stan- 

 dards, and Dwarfs. Of these, Standards 

 are on stems from 2 \ feet to 4 feet from the 

 ground to the budding ; Half Standards^ 

 from I \ feet to 2\ feet ; Dwarf Standards ; 

 from i foot to I feet ; while Dwarfs are 

 worked close to or beneath the surface, and 

 form vigorous bushes for winter planting. 

 Dwarfs on own roots are small plants in pots, 

 which should be planted out in early autumn, 

 or kept in frames during the winter and put 

 out in April. In addition to these forms 

 there are Climbing Roses, whose habit is 

 obvious from the name they bear. Further, 

 roses generally are divided into two great 

 classes or sections, namely, Summer Roses 

 and Autumnal Roses. 



Roses, Evergreen. 



These ar- the progeny of Rosea semper- 

 virens, which abounds throughout Europe 

 in a wild state, and, like the Ayrshire, are 

 employed as climbing and weeping roses. 

 Their beautiful dark -green leaves grow on 



to the depth of winter, which has procured 

 them the name, although, strictly speaking, 

 they are deciduous. They are mostly trees 

 of vigorous growth and abundant bloomers, 

 adapted for pillar-roses : their small, but 

 very double flowers, hanging in graceful 

 cymes of fourteen to twenty on a branch. 

 They require much thinning in the pruning 

 season ; the shoots left being merely cut at 

 the points, the others cut close to the base. 



Roses, Grafting. 



This operation is performed by cutting 

 the top of the stock to a proper height by 

 a clean horizontal cut, and then make a 

 longitudinal V- sna P e d cut down the centre, 

 I, 2, or 3 inches long, according to the 

 size of the stock. In this slit place the 

 graft, after having cut the lower end of it 

 to fit the cut in the stock. Having inserted 

 it, bind the whole up with clay or grafting 

 paste, as directed in budding. The best 

 time for grafting roses in pots is January. 



Roses, Hybrid, Perpetual. 



With regard to the management of this 

 variety of rose, Messrs. Paul & Son, of 

 the Old Nurseries, Cheshunt, say : " The 

 culture of all the Hybrid Perpetuals is one 

 of the simplest and may be applied to all 

 the other classes. The soil cannot be too 

 rich or deeply cultivated ; trenched ground 

 with a thick layer of manure just above the 

 forked-up bottom of the trench is desirable, 

 and a fresh mulch of manure after planting, 

 to be pricked in about March, will do 

 good. The pruning in this class should be 

 regulated by the growth of the individual 

 varieties, the weak shoots being cut in 

 close, the stronger sucker-like shoots beinp 

 left longer. The stronger grown for 

 good pillar, pyramid, or climbing roses, 

 and the shoots for these forms of growth 

 should be left almost their entire length." 



These lovely additions to the rose garden 

 haw been raised in great part by crossing, 



