4^ Roses for Amateurs. 



for many of the finest varieties therein to be found, belongs 

 the credit, we think, of first allocating Roses formerly 

 regarded as Hybrid Perpetuals under Hybrid Teas. That 

 firm, together with Dickson and Sons, the late Mr. H. 

 Bennett, and the French firms of Pernet-Ducher and Nar- 

 bannand, have b^en the chief contributors to the section, and 

 their record, it must be confessed, is an admirable one. 



Planting, as in the case of the Teas proper, is better 

 deferred until spring, afterwards giving the trees a good 

 mulch. For beds the Hybrid Teas will afford a wealth of 

 material. A little discretion., however, must be used as 

 regards the allocation of the different varieties, the tallest- 

 growing ones being placed in the centre and the dwarfer 

 ones towards the sides. Two feet at least should be allowed 

 between each plant. 



Varieties. 



As a section is devoted to the enumeration of varieties 

 for general purposes and exhibition, there is no need to 

 furnish a separate list here. 



Roses Under Glass. 

 Extension of the System. 



While the previous sections have dealt with Roses out of 

 doors, and have been mainly intended for amateurs who 

 are not able to afford to cultivate them under glass, yet 

 such structures are now so cheap that any amateurs desirous 

 of extending their Rose season may do so with very little 

 trouble and at a comparatively small outlay. Indeed, nowa- 

 days the cultivators of Roses under glass are a very numerous 

 body. Nor is the reason for this far to seek, seeing that 

 there are plenty of gardens in which it is impossible satis- 

 factorily to grow Roses outside, yet which, given a glass 

 structure, will produce them practically through the dullest 

 months of the vear. 



