ROSE 



AA. Smaller flowered. 



B. Foliage deciduoiis. 



c. Habit climbing . . . . 15. Musk 



Noisette 

 1(>. Ayrshire 

 17. Poly ant ha 



Wichuraiana Hybrids 



CC. Habit dwarf, bushy. 18. Perpetual Briers 

 Rugosa 

 Lucida 

 Microphylla 

 Berberidifolia 

 Scotch 

 BB. Foliage more or less 



persistent 19. Evergreen 



Macartney 

 Wichuraiana 



Garden-group 1. Provence. Fragrant: branching or 

 pendulous: fls. generally globular: foliage bold, broad, 

 wrinkled, deeply serrate: prickles uncertain; sometimes 

 fine and straight, sometimes coarse and hooked. Rich 

 soil. Prune closely unless very vigorous. Types are 

 Moss Rose, a crested form of the Provence (Fig. 2157). 

 Pompon, a dwarf group; cupped flowers. See also No. 

 8. Sulphurca, an undesirable yellow form of difficult 

 cultivation. 



Garden-group 2. The Damask and French. Damask 

 Roses are fragrant: growth robust; spinous: Ivs. light 

 green, downy, coriaceous. Hardy: free -flowering: 

 scent destroyed on drying. 



French Roses: Fragrant (moderately) : more upright 

 and compact in growth than the Provence: prickles 

 smaller and fewer: fls. generally flat. Very hardy, 

 growing in any soil; petals bleach in strong sunlight; 

 makes abundance of wood, which should be thinned out; 

 perfume develops in the dried petals. 



Hybrid French or Hybrid Provence, a less robust 

 group with smoother, short-jointed wood and gener- 

 ally light-colored flowers. Type Princess Clementine. 

 Other subdivisions include hybrids with nearly all of 

 the Perpetual group. Madame Plantier is a Hybrid 

 Noisette. Coupe d'Hebe is a Hybrid Bourbon. 



Hybrid China (China x French and Provence, par- 

 taking more of those parents). Growth more diffuse 

 than the French Rose; foliage smooth, shining and 

 remains on the bush late in the year; thorns nu- 

 merous and strong. Vigorous of growth; very hardy, 

 and generally well adapted to poor soil; requires but 

 little pruning. 



Garden-group 3. Alba, or White Roses. A very 

 distinct group; all light-colored flowers of moderate 



ROSE 



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2168. American Beauty Rose (X 

 Probably the most famous Rose now cultivated in America. 

 One of the Hybrid Perpetual class. 



size: leaf whitish above, deep green below: spineless 

 (some hybrids with other groups are very thorny), of 

 free growth ; prune closely. Type, Felecite Parmentier 

 and Maiden's Blush. 



Garden-group 4. Ayrshire. Climbing Roses; very 

 hardy: Blender shoots suitable for trellises mid trunk's 

 of trees: Ms. MOdOMd singly. Useful for pot cultiva- 

 tion when trained over a frame; fls. vary from white to 



2169. Paul Neyron (X %). 

 A popular rose-colored variety of the Hybrid Perpetual type. 



Jeep crimson. Type, Queen of the Belgians, Dundee 

 Rambler. Ruga is a hybrid between this group and one 

 of the Teas ; fragrant. 



Garden-group 5. Briers. Under this heading may be 

 grouped most of the well-defined types of garden Roses, 

 mostly small-flowered and which do not readily respond 

 to high cultivation. They are more useful as flowering 

 shrubs in the garden than for cut-flowers. The blooms 

 are generally short-lived. 



Austrian or Yellow Briers. Small leaflets: solitary 

 flowers: bark chocolate-brown. Very hardy, but re- 

 quire pure air and dry soil; will stand very little 

 pruning, producing flowers from the upper ends of 

 the old wood. Types, Harisoni, Austrian Copper and 

 Persian Yellow. 



Scotch or Spiny. This group is well recognized by 

 its excessive spininess; the spines are also very 

 sharp: compact, low bushes, flowering abundantly and 

 early: flowers small, double. Multiply by under- 

 ground suckers; fragrant. One hybrid of this group, 

 Stanwell, is a Perpetual. 



Sweetbrier. Distinguished by the fragrance of its 

 leaves: the fruits are also decorative: foliage small: 

 flowers light-colored generally and not held of much 

 account. 



Lord Penzance Briers. This is a group of hybrids 

 of R.rubiginosa (the Sweetbrier), and the older large- 

 flowered varieties, especially Bourbon and Damask. 

 The results are hardly distributed in America as yet; 

 a few are to be found in select collections. Generally 

 speaking they may be described as very greatly im- 

 proved Sweetbriers. Brenda is particularly desirable 

 for its fruit. 



Prairie Rose i /.'. K, /ii/era). A native species; prom- 

 ises under cultivation to develop some valuable ac- 



