44 THE SUMMER ROSE GARDEN 



good soils, as a standard, soon form a large um- 

 brageous tree. Belle de Rosny is a hybrid Noisette, 

 blooming in very large clusters, of first-rate 

 quality. Catel is one of our finest dark roses, very 

 double, and finely shaped, quite worth the notice 

 of the amateur. Coccinea superba, or " Vingt- 

 neuf Juillet," is a rose alike beautiful in its flowers 

 and foliage ; in early spring its leaves and shoots 

 are of a most vivid red, and this appearance they 

 retain the greater part of the summer ; its flowers 

 are brilliant in the extreme, crimson purple shaded 

 with scarlet : the shoots of this rose must also be 

 left at nearly their full length. 



Coupe d' Amour richly deserves its name, for it 

 is a beautiful neat rose, quite perfect in its form 

 and colour. 



Coronation is one of those purple shaded roses, 

 inclining to slate, imbricated, and very perfect in 

 its shape. Chatelaine is a hybrid Bourbon rose, 

 dove-coloured, finely shaped, and very good. 

 Coutard may be safely recommended as a most 

 perfect and good rose, flowering with great freedom, 

 and beautiful either as a dwarf or standard. 

 Colonel Fabvier, also a sterling good rose, is 

 remarkable for its delicate fragrance. The Duke 

 of Devonshire is an imbricated rose, one of the 

 great favourites of the day, and most deservedly 

 so, for its rosy lilac petals are so delicately striped 

 with white, and its shape is so perfect, that it will 

 always be admired. Due de Choiseul is not a 



