SUMMER ROSES. 103 



No. L SUMMER ROSES. 

 \From " The Gardeners' Chronicle? 1863,^. 196.] 



CAN we dispense with Summer Roses? This is a 

 question which we think admits of an emphatic "No." 

 The Autumnals are undoubtedly invaluable ; among 

 them the Hybrid Perpetuals furnish us with flowers 

 of perfect form and exquisite colours, and yield a 

 succession of bloom that prolongs the gay season of 

 the garden to the very verge of winter ; the Bourbon, 

 Chinese, and Tea-scented flower still more abundantly in 

 the later months of the year, and are consequently even 

 more valuable in those gardens which are visited by their 

 proprietors in the autumnal months only ; but for gor- 

 geousness of effect none of these equal the Summer Roses. 

 The flowers, which with the Autumnals are spread over a 

 lengthened period, are with the former concentrated on 

 a point of time ; and if they were counted, flower for 

 flower, throughout the season, we doubt whether the 

 balance would not remain in favour of Summer Roses. 

 It would appear then to be a matter of choice whether 

 we receive the boon at once or by instalments ; and 

 certain it is that the garden is stripped of its gayest 

 scenes and some of its brightest ornaments if we alto- 

 gether exclude the Roses of June. Such is my conviction, 

 and following it I shall venture to enumerate the principal 

 Summer groups, describing a few of the most desirable 

 varieties from each. 



THE BOURSAULT contains one variety, Amadis, which 

 must not be lost sight of. It is one of the hardiest, 

 thriving alike in shade and sunshine, and growing in the 

 least favourable soils and situations. It is most valuable 

 as a Pillar and Climbing Rose, producing myriads of 

 crimson purple flowers on shoots utterly devoid of thorns. 

 It requires very little pruning. 



