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THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



bears dainty arching sprays of a soft 

 blush colour, and Waltham Climber 

 small rosy flowers with a white eye. 

 Kinds good in autumn are : Purple East, 

 with very large clusters of purple flowers ; 

 Mrs. Paul, in which they are deep blush ; 

 and Pink Rover, with large pale pink 

 flowers deeper in the centre. When sum- 

 mer is on the wane, there are few kinds 

 better, however, than the old white, 

 Aimee Vibert. The Wallflower Rambler 

 is a good arch-rose, flowering from base 

 to summit, the flowers larger and paler 

 than in Crimson Rambler. Tea Rambler 

 may be grown as a charming weeping 

 standard, with salmon- pink or copper- red 

 flowers ; while for sending up a tree 

 there is nothing better than Rambling 

 Rector, with large trusses of white flowers 

 and foliage that is almost evergreen. 

 Ards Pillar and Ards Rover are fine 

 pillar-roses in velvet-crimson and crim- 

 son-maroon, and Queen Alexandra, with 

 pyramidal rosy-pink clusters, is excellent 

 for the same purpose. 



WICHURAIANA ROSES. One of the 

 most distinct groups added.to our gardens 

 of late years, and now embracing some 

 pretty kinds. Their one fault is that 

 they bloom but once, and though the 

 various kinds cover several weeks in 

 early summer, and their flowers are 

 numerous, these Roses will hardly attain 

 their highest usefulness until perpetual- 

 flowering sorts have been obtained. For 

 covering slopes, walls, trellis, pergolas, 

 and the ground surface of rose-beds they 

 are most valuable, making shoots many 

 feet in length in the season. For mingling 

 with other Roses on pillars, for rambling 

 over tree-roots or about their trunks, or 

 for any free, fountain-like effects on a 

 lawn, nothing can compare with their 

 long pliant shoots covered with neat 

 glossy leaves which are well-nigh ever- 

 green, and loaded with their wreaths of 

 blossom. The parent, R. Wichtiraiana, is 

 a Japanese Rose bearing trusses of fra- 

 grant white flowers from the middle of 

 July. By crossing with Crimson Rambler 

 a fine rosy form was secured, flowering in 

 June, and gains have since continued in 

 this country and America, the early forms 

 crossing so freely with Tea and Noisette 

 Roses that the choice has already become 

 almost bewildering. It is a strange fact 

 that nearly all the seedlings and hybrids 

 of R. Wichuraiana bloom considerably 

 earlier than the parent. Among the best 

 kinds are Alberic Barbier, a beautiful tea- 

 scented Rose with double or semi-double 

 creamy white flowers shading to canary 

 yellow and opening in May ; Dorothy 



Perkins, with a charming profusion of 

 clear pink blossoms in heavy wreath-like 

 clusters ; Jersey Beauty, a cross with 

 Perle des Jardins, vigorous, with single 

 pale yellow flowers 3 inches across, and 

 fragrant ; Lady Gay, a new kind, which 

 in the brilliance and wealth of its deep 

 rosy clusters promises to outstrip anything 

 hitherto seen ; Manda's Triumph, like the 

 last an American gain, with large clusters 

 of double white flowers ; Rene Andre, 

 with clusters of semi-double flowers two 

 to three inches across, deep rosy-saffron 

 in bud, unfolding in tints of yellow, orange, 

 and red. Other distinct colours are : 

 Adelaide Moulle, violet-rose ; Auguste 

 Barbier, lilac and white ; Edmund Proust, 

 reddish-copper ; Elisa Robichon, buff- 

 yellow ; Jean Enichaud, rosy-salmon ; 

 and Leontine Gervaise, with the beautiful 

 tinting of its parent Catherine Guillot, but 

 a shade lighter. Pink Roamer and Ever- 

 green Gem, being of specially free habit, 

 are well adapted for weeping standards ; 

 Gardenia is remarkable for its strong- 

 growth, reaching sometimes 12 feet in a 

 season ; while Ferdinand Roussel, Paul 

 Transon, Sweetheart, Jersey Beauty, and 

 other kinds are conspicuous for their fine 

 evergreen foliage. Quite a number of 

 kinds are exceedingly fragrant, among the 

 best in this way being Evergreen Gem, 

 Gardenia, Gerbe Rose, John Burton, La 

 Perle, Rene Andre, Rubra, and W. K. 

 Harris. A large number of American 

 seedlings are now finding their way into 

 our gardens, so that this group seems to 

 promise for the near future as wide a 

 choice as many of the older classes. The 

 only pruning required by these Roses is a 

 tipping of the longest shoots or the removal 

 of any that seem exhausted, while the 

 readiness of most kinds to root from cut- 

 tings and grow away on their own roots 

 is another point in their favour. 



MONTHLY OR CHINA ROSES. Monthly 

 or China Roses have bright and varied 

 colours, free growth, hardy constitution, 

 and are most constant bloomers. They 

 are the first to open in the early summer, 

 and often continue to produce their buds 

 and blossoms almost until winter has 

 merged into spring again, a Monthly Rose 

 bush in a warm nook being scarcely ever 

 without at least a bud. They are per- 

 petual and perennial in the fullest sense. 

 They grow well either in light or heavy 

 soil, preferring that which is light and 

 warm, but not dry. Severe pruning is 

 good for them, though on walls, when the 

 earliest possible flowers are wished for, a 

 few shoots may be left their full length. 

 There are many varieties, all more or 



