AUTUMNAL ROSES. 



flowers are rosy carmine with purplish edges ; a large 

 showy free growing Rose with beautiful foliage, good for 

 exhibition, and one of the very best for effect in the 

 garden. Victor Trouillard, although irregular in shape,. 

 is valuable for its brilliant velvety crimson flowers and 

 beautiful foliage. Virginal comes in strong contrast to- 

 the preceding ; the flowers are pure white, the habit rather 

 delicate, but the variety still indispensable. William. 

 Griffith, a well known old Rose, is one" of those glossy- 

 looking flowers of a pink or pale rosy hue, in its best 

 state very beautiful. 



The Hybrid Perpetual Roses require high cultivation 

 to bring out their valuable qualities in full perfection ;. 

 manure freely, and prune closely, watering occasionally 

 during the season of most rapid growth if the weather 

 should be dry. Those kinds which bloom very freely 

 should be relieved of a portion of the flowers when in 

 the bud state, by which practice the flowers that are left 

 will bloom finer, and the vigour of the plant be more 

 efficiently preserved. 



No. IV. AUTUMNAL ROSES. 

 [From " The Gardeners' Chronicle? 1863, p. 365.] 



THE BOURBON PERPETUALS form a small but beauti- 

 ful group of Roses, embracing those Hybrid Perpetuals 

 of some catalogues in which the features of the Bourbon 

 Rose predominate. In other words, they approach nearer 

 to the Bourbon than to the Hybrid Perpetual, but are 

 distinct from both. The flowers are remarkable for 

 their circular outline ; they are not very large but are 

 more than usually abundant. The growth is moderate 

 and the foliage fine and handsome, noticeable for the 

 breadth of the leaflets. The varieties are best suited to 

 form low standards, dwarf standards, and bush Roses, 

 and if planted . in. a rich soil and pruned closely, they 

 bloom constantly and well throughout the summer and 



