150 THE AUTUMNAL ROSE GARDEN. 



Emile, Eugene Hardi, and Mrs. Bosanquet are 

 all beautiful roses of their class ; their colours are 

 all of the most delicate blush or flesh colour. 

 Augustine Hersent, although not a new rose, is 

 not enough known ; it is one of the very finest 

 bright rose-coloured China Roses we possess, and 

 of most hardy and luxuriant habits. Fenelon 

 (Desprez) is a deep rose-coloured variety, with 

 erect clusters of flowers, which are large and very 

 double. Prince Charles and Eugene Beauharnais 

 are two Luxembourg* roses of great excellence ; 

 their flowers are large and globular, of a fine rosy 

 red : the latter is the deeper in colour. 



In cultivating China Roses but little care is 

 required, as most of them are quite hardy; all 

 those marked S., as varieties of Rosa semper- 

 florens, are adapted for the front edges of beds or 

 clumps, as they are of more humble growth than 

 the varieties of the Common. It must also be 

 recollected that the latter are those alone adapted 

 for standards. The varieties of Rosa semperflorens, 

 though they will exist for several years on the 

 Dog Rose stock, yet do not form ornamental 

 heads, but become stinted and diseased; on the 

 contrary, the varieties of the China Rose, as 

 standards, particularly on short stems two to three 

 feet in height, form magnificent heads swelling 

 and uniting with the stock, and giving a mass of 

 bloom from June to November ; on tall stems I 



* Raised in the Gardens of the Luxembourg by M, Hardy. 



