54 THE ROSE. 



produce flowers in the fall of the year at all, 

 unless specially pruned and treated. Those 

 which are of moderate growth require rich 

 soil and close pruning; such are Hermosa, 

 Queen of Bourbons, Souvenir de la Malmai- 

 son, and the new Queen of Bedders, all ex- 

 cellent varieties worthy a place in a small 

 collection. The stronger growers need to 

 have less wood removed, but must have 

 moderate pruning. The best of them are 

 Apolline, Cornice de Tarn-et-Garonne, 

 Duchesse de Thuringe, Edward Desfosses, 

 George Peabody, and Malmaison. If these 

 have the shoots moderately cut back so soon 

 as each is through flowering, they will give a 

 succession of flowers from June until cut off 

 by the frost. Souvenir de la Malmaison is 

 the general favorite of this group, but I con- 

 sider Apolline as the most valuable; it 

 flowers with the same freedom as Hermosa, 

 when cut back as directed above, and has 

 large cup-shaped blossoms of rosy-carmine 

 that are very attractive. No collection can be 

 complete with this variety left out. 



The Hybrid Noisette Rose {Rosa Noisettiana 

 Hybridd) is a comparatively new group of con- 

 siderable importance. The varieties of this 

 class generally, though not always, flower in 

 small clusters and bloom very freely through- 



