ROSES IK GEITERAL CULTIYATIOK. 1(? 



tliey are getting a Kemontant. To call a new 

 variety a summer rose is to sound its death-knell, 

 and no amount of adjectives in the superlative 

 degree can resuscitate or afford it sufficient 

 stimulus for more than a brief existence. Peo- 

 ple no longer buy summer roses, at least ninety- 

 nine out of one hundred do not, hut unless the 

 descrijption of the raise?' jparticularly states to the 

 contrary (that they are free autumnals) they are, 

 all the same, pretty likely to get a number of 

 them, and in the course of a few years will dis- 

 cover that many beautiful roses which they 

 bought for Hybrid Perpetuals are simply sum- 

 mer roses which occasionally, or very rarely, 

 gnidgingly yield a few autumn flowers. In this 

 book, therefore, many varieties will be found de- 

 scribed as Hybrid Chiuas, 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 most of 

 them are rapid growers, with long, flexible 

 shoots ; smooth, luxuriant foliage ; large, rather 

 numerous, thorns ; globular or cup-shaped flow- 



