36 THE ROSE. 



many more Hybrid Chinas and many less 

 Hybrid Perpetuals. Raisers dislike to call a 

 new variety Hybrid China, if by any stretch 

 of the imagination, or from having seen a 

 bloom during the autumn, they think people 

 can be persuaded that they are getting a 

 Remontant. To call a new variety a summer 

 rose is to sound its death-knell, and no 

 amount of adjectives in the superlative de- 

 gree can resuscitate or afford it sufficient 

 stimulus for more than a brief existence. 

 People no longer buy summer roses, at least 

 ninety-nine out of one hundred do not, but 

 unless the description of the raiser particularly 

 states to the contrary (that they are free au- 

 tumnals) they are, all the same, pretty likely 

 to get a number of them, and in the course 

 of a few years will discover that many beauti- 

 ful roses which they bought for Hybrid Per- 

 petuals are simply summer roses which oc- 

 casionally, or very rarely, grudgingly yield a 

 few autumn flowers. In this book, therefore, 

 many varieties will be found described as 

 Hybrid Chinas, which are catalogued, by 

 nurserymen, as Hybrid Perpetuals. 



On account of the diverse parentage of the 

 varieties in this group, coming from so many 

 different classes, there is great dissimilarity 

 in the appearance of the different sorts, but 



