44 A PLEA FOR SUMMER ROSES. 



inclined to treat it. I am my own gardener, so far as 

 relates to Roses, attending personally to their wants, 

 whether real or fancied, and, like many lovers of flowers, 

 find pleasure in anticipating the period of flowering. To 

 speak more plainly, I sometimes build castles in the air. 

 A sultry sun has driven me into a cool shady bower, where 

 I have for some time been revelling amidst the glories of a 

 June Rose garden, calling up to view one individual 

 specimen after another, until I have raised a host of half- 

 forgotten favourites each in full dress, a gorgeous spectacle, 

 and to which, notwithstanding every effort of the imagina- 

 tion, I could find no parallel among the Autumnal kinds. 

 Where, indeed, among the latter shall we find such a huge 

 mass of beauty as is presented to our view in a finely 

 bloomed specimen of Madame Plantier, in a Brennus, a 

 Fulgens, or a Beauty of Billiard ? Where among the 

 latter, shall we find the brilliancy of Feu Brillant, or 

 Eblouissante de Laqueue, or the sweetness and beauty of 

 many of those old globular - shaped Provence Roses? 

 Where in autumn can we find anything approaching in 

 delicacy of beauty to La Seduisante, Felicite, and in dry 

 warm weather to Sophie de Marsilly ? Those compact - 

 growing, full-petalled, regular-shaped garden Roses, too, 

 are indispensable to all collections where exhibiting is an 

 object in view, or where perfection in a Rose is desiderated. 

 Among these, Boula de Nanteuil as a dark Rose reigns 

 supreme ; Kean as a scarlet is almost unequalled ; and 

 Grandissima, D'Aguesseau, and Columella, of various 

 shades of crimson, are perfect; and these are Summer 

 Roses. 



The Moss tribe is replete with beauty, and the varieties 

 which compose it must from their distinctness ever form 

 an interesting feature in the Rose garden. But have we 

 any Autumnal Moss ? Certainly none worthy of the name. 

 With June these lovely Roses fade, and the glory of the 

 Rose garden is departed. 



If we turn again to the Hybrid Chinese, and view the 



