AA. Smaller flowered. 



B. Foliage decitluous. 



c. Habit climbing 15. Musk 



Noisette 



16. Ayrshire 



17. Polyantha 



Wichuraiana Hybrids 

 OC. Habit a ii-arf, bushy. 18. Perpetual Briers 

 Rugosa 

 Lucida 

 Microrhylla 

 Berberid'ifolia 

 Scotch 

 BB. Foliage more or less 



persistent 19. Evergreen 



Macartiiev 

 Wichuraiana 



Garden-group 1. Provence. Fragrant oranching or 

 pendulous: fls. generally globular: foliage bold, broad 

 wrinkled, deeply serrate: prickles uncertain, sometimes 

 hue aud straight, sometimes coarse and hooked Rich 

 soil. Prune closely unless very vigorous lypes aie 

 Moss Rose, a crested form of the Provence (Big 21 )7| 

 Pompon, a dwarf gi-oiiji; cupped flowers bee tiso N< 

 8. Sulphurea, an undesirable yellow form of dillK oil 



-group ; 



Th,' D„ 



id F>ench Damask 

 spinous: Ivs. light 

 y : free - flowering : 



growing in any soil; petals li:. i ;■ _ -iMili-ln; 



makes abundanceof wood, win. :i -i m.kI Im ■ ImiiMd nut ; 



perfume develops in the dried pei;its. 



Hybrid French or Hylirid Provence, a less robust 

 group with smoother, short-jointed wood and gener- 

 ally light-colored flowers. Type Princess Clementine. 

 Other subdivisions inchnle hybrids with nearly all of 

 the Perpetual group. Madame Plantier is a Hybrid 

 Noisette. Coupe d'Hebe is a Hybrid Bourbon. 



Hybrid China (China x French and Provence, par- 

 taking more of those parents). Growth Tre-re riiiVnse 

 than the French Rose; foliage siiiu..ii, u.i,,!,.' nid 

 remains on the bush late in the >- : m- 



merous and strong. Vigorous of Kr.i. > ,, 



and generally well adapted, to poor smi r.^iim ■ imr 

 little pruning. 

 Garden-group 3. Alba, or White Bases. A very 



distinct group; all light-colored flowers of moderate 



size: leaf whitish above, deep green below: spineless 

 (some hybrids with other groups are very thorny), of 

 free growth ; prune closely. Type, Peleoite Parmentier 

 and Maiden's Blush. 



en group 4 A 



lendei hoots 



s fl prodlK e,l 



t limbing Roses; 



lie for t 



and tr 



Useful for pot cultiva- 

 fls \ ary from white to 



Jeep 

 Rami 



of til, 



Gu. 



be 



I II I r nils ii.;hiiii:,' may 

 grout li' I 111 1 til hlim I i\i„ of garden Roses, 

 mostly nj ill floweitd lud which do not readily respond 

 to high cultivation They are more useful as flowering 

 shrubs in the garden than for cut flowers. The blooms 

 are generally short-lived. 



Austrian or Yellow Briers. Small leaflets: solitary 

 flowers: bark chocolate-brown. Very hardy, but re- 

 ipiire pure air and dry soil; will stand very little 

 pruning, producing flowers from the upper ends of 

 the old wood. Types, Harisoni, Austrian Copper and 

 Persian Yellow. 



Scotch or Spiny. This group is well recognized by 

 its excessive spininess; the spines are also very 

 sharp: compact. Imw 1,i,s1,..s. flowering abundantly and 

 early: flow<-r~ , i,:,il, ,l.nii,|,.. Multiply by under- 

 ground .suck, r ' Ml,- hybrid o"f this group, 

 Stanwell, is a 1 



Sweetbrier. I n -i in:;,ii-li, ,| by the fragrance of its 

 leaves: the fruits are also decorative: foliage small: 

 flowers light-colored generally and not held of much 

 account. 



Lord Penzance Briers. This is a nrou|> of hybrids 

 of if.rn6((/Jnos«(theS\v, iil-ii, i . ;,i,,i M,. .iMir'hirge- 

 flowered varieties, e-i" " ' Diiiiask. 

 The results are hardly ,i , ■ , , i is yet: 

 a few are to be found in ,, ,, . i , .,,i . , 

 speaking they may be <le.-, nli, .1 i, . , , i 

 proved Sweetbriers. Brendu is pan i.iil.niv ,l,sira 

 for its fruit. 



Prairie Rose {R.setigera). A nalii,- s] i.s; pro 



ises under cultivation to develnp slum, yaluable 



rally 



