230 The Rose Garden. 



Class I. Summer Roses. 



Blooming in May, June, aud July. 



Rosa Alpina. 



GROUP I. THE ALPINE OR BOURSAULT ROSE. 



The Boursault Roses are very distinct from all others. The shoots are long, 

 flexible, very smooth, in some instances entirely free from thorns ; the one side often 

 of a pale green, the other of a reddish tinge ; the eyes are formed farther apart than 

 in common. The flowers are produced in large clusters. By these features are the 

 varieties of this group readily distinguished. The Boursault Roses, though of vigorous 

 growth, are not of a sufficiently pendulous habit to make perfect " Weeping Roses " 

 without assistance from the cultivator. When desired to be formed into such, the 

 branches should be drawn to the ground with tar-twine or twisted bast, when the 

 immense trusses of flowers they bring forth produce a most gorgeous appearance. 

 One inducement to grow them in this manner is, that most Roses of a pendulous 

 growth producing pale-coloured flowers, they introduce a charming variety among 

 Weeping Roses ; for the Boursault are mostly purple or crimson. Besides forming 

 good Weeping Roses, they are fine grown either on pillars or on fences with a 

 northerly aspect, a situation where few other kinds succeed well. It might be 

 supposed that they are very hardy, growing naturally as they do on the Alps of 

 Austria and Switzerland. And such is indeed the case ; they will bloom well in 

 situations where they scarcely obtain a gleam of sunshine. The popular name of 

 the group " Boursault " is due to the first double Alpine Rose being so named in 

 compliment to M. Boursault, a French cultivator. 



Boursault Roses should be well thinned out in pruning ; but the shoots that are 

 left for flowering should be shortened in very little. 



I. AMADIS (Crimson); flowers deep crimson-purple, shaded more or less with 

 vivid crimson, large and semi-double ; form cupped ; habit erect ; growth vigorous ; 



