28 THE HYBRID CHINA ROSE. 



recommended for the French Rose may be applied 

 to all of this family. 



The most free seed-bearing rose of this family 

 is the Globe Hip, the flowers of which should not 

 be fertilised if pure white roses are desired. Some 

 few years since I raised a plentiful crop of seed- 

 lings from this rose, fertilised with the Tuscany : 

 nearly all my plants produced semi-double blush 

 and rose-coloured flowers. 



It will, I feel assured, repay the amateur if he 

 will plant Comte Plater, or Emerance, against a 

 south wall, and fertilise their flowers with the 

 pollen off Rosa Harrisonii, or the Persian Yellow : 

 if seed can be procured, some novel yellow roses 

 must be originated. 



THE HYBRID CHINA ROSE. 



(ROSA INDICA HTBRIDA.) 



Rosier Hybride de Bengale. 



THE superior varieties of this fine division give 

 a combination of all that is or can be beautiful in 

 summer roses ; for, not only are their flowers of 

 the most elegant forms and colours, their foliage 

 of extreme luxuriance, but their branches are so 

 vigorous and graceful, that perhaps no plant pre- 

 sents such a mass of beauty as a fine-grown 

 hybrid China rose in full bloom. They owe their 



