26 The Rose Garden. 



regularity and in such gay profusion that an amateur eventually purchased it to 

 transplant to his seat in Yorkshire ; and he did this with considerable success, for 

 although of great size it flourished, and continued to flower well.* 



When the first edition of this work was published (1848) the Rose was judged by 

 the Florists' rules of the shape and size of the flower, ignoring altogether the valuable 

 qualities of habit and constitution. But as its devotees increased in number and 

 intelligence, the novelties constantly arising from hybridising and cross-breeding had 

 to pass many other tests those of habit, constitution, freedom of growth, and 

 flowering, &c. These qualities are now insisted on by our best gardeners, and it is 

 owing to their possession that many of the old and neglected roses are coming to the 

 front again. 



The introduction of the Hybrid Perpetual Roses in the middle of the last century 

 I regard as the greatest epoch in the history of the Rose. In addition to the many 

 beautiful varieties of these successively introduced, from them have arisen a wealth of 

 sterling novelties popularly known as Hybrid Tea-scented. More recently single 

 Roses, and even the original species, have obtained a certain standing among 

 cultivators, and the Moss, Multiflora, and Polyantha have been greatly varied and 

 improved. 



Towards the middle of the nineteenth century the Rose amateurs of England were 

 becoming so numerous that it was almost impossible to enumerate even those who 

 possessed collections of merit. A few, however, occur to me which have especial 

 claims to notice as being the earliest of any extent, and they doubtless encouraged 

 the rising taste for this flower. 



At Dane End, near Munden, in Hertfordshire, formerly the seat of C. S. Chauncey, 

 Esq., was formed one of the earliest and best collections, and to which this county is 

 no doubt indebted in some degree for the celebrity she enjoys for Roses. 



Mr Sabine formed a collection of the species and varieties many years back at 

 North Mims, Herts. Lindley in the Rosarum Monographia, 1820, gives a list of no 

 fewer than 1 84 double varieties to be found there, and a vast number of varieties and 

 species were once growing in the Gardens of the Royal Horticultural Society at 

 Chiswick. 



About eighty years ago Mrs Gaussen formed a Rosarium at Brookmans, in Hert- 

 fordshire, which contained many varieties. The form of the ground it occupied was 

 an oblong, walled in, the walls covered with climbing Roses and other plants. There 

 was a variety of beds formed and planted with much taste ; in the centre stood a 

 temple covered with climbing Roses. The whole was blinded from distant view by 

 a wide laurel bank ; and the surprise created on suddenly entering was most agreeable, 



* I may here state that the original firm of A. Paul & Son (1806-1860) no longer exists. I am the only 

 surviving partner of that old firm. 



