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BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS 



NOISETTES 



The Noisette section is not important in point of numbers, 

 but it includes two or three climbing or rambling varieties of 

 considerable value. The varieties bear their flowers in clusters. 

 The following are the chief: 



Aimee Vibert, white, free-flowering ; a 

 valuable pillar Rose, owing to its dense 

 habit, and nearly evergreen character. 



Alister Stella Gray, light yellow ; a valu- 

 able wall and pillar variety, growing 

 and flowering throughout the summer 

 and well on into autumn. 



Celine Fores tier, an old yellow, once popular 

 but not grown extensively nowadays. 



Fortune's Yellow, orange ; another old 

 sort, not much seen now; it does 

 not thrive in cold situations, but 

 succeeds admirably in a green- 

 house. 



Lamarque, white, with pale yellow 

 shading; a good climber, but not 

 very hardy. 



L Ideal, coppery red, very distinct. 



Mardchal NieL Once the most popular of all Roses, and still 

 a great favourite, owing to its rich colour, powerful fragrance, 

 extremely vigorous growth, and wonderful freedom of blooming. 

 If it were hardy enough to thrive in most districts out of doors 

 it would be grown in every garden, but it is not. Moreover, it is 



liable to go off with canker, often 

 collapsing very suddenly. It is 

 generally reserved for greenhouse 

 cultivation, and modern growers 

 find that they get the best results 

 by pruning it closely back to the 

 stock after flowering, leaving only 

 two or three buds. If healthy, and 



ROSES PLANTED IN BORDERS UNDER GLASS growing in good Soil, it generally 



A, border; B, low wall to enclose border ; C, glass. breaks VCrV Strongly after this 

 The shoots are trained on wires. J o J 



drastic treatment, and in a few 



weeks makes new canes twelve to twenty feet long. These shoots 

 ripen during the autumn, and if kept dormant in a cool tempera- 

 ture will throw out abundance of short, flowering growths the 



