32 THE HTBKID CHINA ROSE. 



as it shoots ten or twelve feet in one season, 

 and its pendulous clusters of flowers, which are 

 produced from these long shoots unshortened, 

 have a beautiful effect on a pillar. 



Eivers's Greorge the Fourth is still, perhaps, 

 one of the best of this family : it was raised from 

 seed by myself upwards of thirty years ago, and 

 contributed probably more than anything to make 

 me an enthusiastic rose cultivator.* 



As with French roses, the new varieties of this 

 family are too numerous for detailed descriptions ; 

 but to one variety too much attention cannot be 

 directed, and this is Chenedole, so called from a 

 member of the Chamber of Deputies for Calvados, 

 a district in Normandy, where this fine rose was 

 raised. It has often been asserted that no rose 

 could compete with Brennus in size and beauty ; 

 but I have no hesitation in saying that, in superior 



* I hope to be pardoned the digression, but even now I have 

 not forgotten the pleasure the discovery of this rose gave me. 

 One morning in June I was looking over the first bed of roses I 

 had ever raised from seed, and searching for something new 

 among them with all the ardour of youth, when my attention 

 was attracted to a rose in the centre of the bed, not in bloom, 

 but growing with great vigour, its shoots offering a remarkable 

 contrast to the plants by which it was surrounded, in their 

 crimson purple tinge; upon this plant I set my mark, and the 

 following autumn removed it to a pet situation. It did not 

 bloom in perfection the season after removal ; but when esta- 

 blished, it completely eclipsed all the dark roses known, and the 

 plant was so vigorous that it made shoots more than ten feet in 

 length in one season. 



