8 ROSES FOR ENGLISH GARDENS 



far dins (T.) has given us two lovely Roses, Jersey 

 Beauty and Gardenia, of dainty yellow colouring; 

 while Evergreen Gem, whose pollen parent was 

 the pale yellow Tea Madame Hoste, is quite a 

 large flower and cleliciously scented. Many a 

 garden has uninteresting turf banks between two 

 levels. Here is one of the most obvious places 

 to use these charming Roses, which are beautiful 

 not only for their blossom, but for the close growth 

 of their neat glossy foliage. 



Another Japanese Rose, R. rugosa, has also given 

 some valuable varieties and hybrids. The beautiful 

 white Blanc double de Coubert — whitest Rose of 

 any known — has for purity of colour eclipsed the 

 older, duller white Madame Georges Bruant, though 

 this is still indispensable. Blanc double de Coubert 

 is one of the best of Roses, for it blooms the whole 

 summer through and well into autumn. Its rich, 

 deep green foliage, highly polished though heavily 

 reticulated, persisting till late in the year, gives it 

 that look of perfect health and vigour that the leaf- 

 age of so many Roses lacks in the later summer. The 

 danger in rugosa hybrids is the tendency towards a 

 strong magenta colouring, such as is suggested by 

 the type. But in some of the seedlings a judicious 

 choice of pollen parent has amply corrected this, 

 as in the charming salmon-pink Conrad F. Meyer. 

 This, with the white Scheelicht and the pretty white 

 Fimbriate, are among the most charming of the 

 rugosa varieties. 



The great hardiness of the rugosas enables them 



