SUMMER ROSES. 105 



interesting on account of its dwarf growth and tiny flowers. 

 These delight most in a rich soil, and should be subjected 

 to close pruning. 



THE MOSS ROSE will always rank high where grace 

 and beauty are fairly appreciated. Baronne de Wassenaer 

 is a vigorous growing sort, producing clusters of bright red 

 flowers, of .good size and globular form; it must not be 

 pruned much. Captain Ingram is distinct and handsome, 

 the flowers are dark velvety purple, almost black. Celina, 

 now an old favourite, is not yet surpassed in its way ; the 

 growth is compact, and the flowers are of the richest 

 crimson shaded with purple, well mossed, and produced 

 in gorgeous abundance. This makes an excellent bed, 

 and should be pruned closely. The Old or Common Red 

 Moss remains a model of beauty ; the hybridiser has 

 varied this group exceedingly, but never yet produced 

 any sort to surpass the original ; indeed the best varieties 

 of true Moss Roses have been derived from sports rather 

 than from seed. Clemence Beaugrand is a beautiful bright 

 pink Rose with large double flowers ; the growth is vig- 

 orous. Comtesse Murinais is a large double almost white 

 Rose, not equal to the White Bath in form or purity, but 

 it grows freely everywhere, which the latter does not. 

 Gloire des Mousseuses is of first-rate excellence ; the 

 flowers are blush, very large, full, less globular than the 

 original sort, but well mossed. Gracilis or Prolific re- 

 sembles the old variety very closely, but is of dwarfer 

 growth, and flowers more profusely ; it forms a beautiful 

 bed of about the same rate of growth as Celina. Marie 

 de Blois produces rosy lilac flowers of good shape and 

 size, and is above the average in merit. Nuits de Young 

 bears velvety purple flowers, very dark and very double. 

 Princess Alice, a variety raised from seed by me some 

 ten or twelve years since, is, I find, still quoted and com- 

 mended in four out of five Rose catalogues that I have 

 looked into ; the flowers are blush with pink centres, 

 something in the way of Maiden's Blush ; the buds are 



