34 THE HYBRID CHINA EOSE. 



In the f front court ' of my father's garden, I 

 remember two fine tree roses, one the Double 

 Apple-bearing, the other the Double Sweet Briar ; 

 they had large heads many feet through, and 

 stems gnarled and knotted, measuring two feet in 

 circumference ; their beauty, when their large 

 heads were covered with flowers, was most striking, 

 and the polite stage-coachmen of those days used 

 to pull up to allow their passengers to have a 

 good look at those glorious trees one almost 

 regrets that such pleasant times are gone for ever. 

 The trees were destroyed by a heavy fall of 

 snow in the autumn before they had shed their 

 leaves, which, lodging on the branches, crushed 

 them to the ground, so that they never recovered. 

 Some old specimens of the Double Apple-bear- 

 ing rose still exist here : one has a stem nearly 

 eighteen inches in circumference. 



To return from this digression I have only to 

 recommend General Jacqueminot ; a fine, large, 

 vigorous-growing rose, and, like Chenedole, well 

 adapted for a pillar rose, and Triomphe de Bayeux, 

 a white hybrid China rose, even more vigorous 

 in its habit than Chenedole, and, like many of the 

 roses of this family, only adapted for a large 

 standard or a pillar rose, now that we have our 

 beautiful Hybrid Perpetual Roses as ever-bloom- 

 ing bushes for our rose-beds. 



