104 SUMMER ROSES. 



THE SCOTCH ROSE is valuable because it blooms so 

 abundantly, and often a month earlier than other Summer 

 Roses. Planted singly it forms the prettiest dwarf bush 

 imaginable ; it also makes an excellent low hedge. The 

 flowers are small and globular principally white, red, 

 blush, and purple, but there are intermediate shades and 

 very sweet. They resemble each other too closely to 

 need describing. The plant will flourish on the shallowest 

 of soils, and may be pruned closely every winter. 



THE DAMASK, formerly an important group, may now 

 be brought down to three or four varieties. La Ville de 

 Bruxelles is a full-sized Rose of free growth, with beautiful 

 light green foliage ; the flowers are salmon-rose margined 

 with blush. Leda, or Painted Damask, is in its best form 

 worthy of a place in every garden ; the flowers are blush 

 edged with lake, exceedingly pretty and distinct. Where 

 care is not taken to preserve the marked form it is apt 

 to degenerate and lose the lake margin, when as a wholly 

 white flower it is comparatively worthless. Madame 

 Hardy is still the best of white Summer Roses, and cannot 

 be too highly praised. For form, purity of colour, hardi- 

 ness, and freedom of growth and flowering, it is still 

 unrivalled. It makes a beautiful bed on a lawn, and as 

 such, where quantity of flowers is required, should not be 

 too closely pruned. Madame Soetmans is a creamy 

 white, sometimes shaded with buff; a large full flower 

 of excellent properties, and in its best state quite a show 

 Rose. All these require moderately close pruning, and 

 will grow in any common garden soil. 



THE PROVENCE ROSE includes the Cabbage, the 

 Crested, and the White, none of which can yet be spared. 

 The first and last are too well known to require descrip- 

 tion ; the Crested is similar to the Cabbage, except that 

 the sepals are beautifully fringed with moss. The globular 

 form is in perfection here, and the fragrance of these Roses 

 is proverbial. A sub-section of this group, known as the 

 the MINIATURE PROVENCE or POMPON, is also highly 



