190 GROUPING OF GARDEN VARIETIES OF ROSES. 



SECTION XIII. 



GROUP XXX. The Hybrid Perpetual Rose. We have 

 here a group that requires something more than a passing 

 word, for it contains the largest proportion of our most 

 valued garden varieties, and which have all sprung into 

 existence within the last forty or fifty years. The 

 " Damask Perpetual," which were the immediate source of 

 this group, were exceedingly popular at that time, although 

 now scarcely ever heard of. If we wish to trace their 

 origin still further back, and some may, as the " pedigree " 

 movement among Roses is fashionable just now, we must 

 go to the old Four Seasons Roses, which is a variety of the 

 " Damask." Our first " Hybrid Perpetual " Roses were 

 hybrids of the "Damask Perpetual," and later on a 

 stronger race was reared between the "Damask Perpetual" 

 and " Hybrid Chinese," and still more recently a more 

 varied brood from between the " Hybrid Perpetuals " 

 themselves and various groups, the Tea-Scented and 

 Bourbon especially. 



GROUP XXXI. The Bourbon Perpetual. It would 

 seem that we have here a race between the " Hybrid 

 Perpetual " and "Bourbon." The flowers are mostly white, 

 blush, and rose, not large, but nicely shaped, and there is a 

 finished appearance about them that pleases the lovers of 

 precision. They bloom more freely in the autumn than 

 the ordinary run of Hybrid Perpetuals. 



GROUP XXXII. The Rose de Rosomane. I have often 

 thought that this group has some of the blood of the 

 "Crimson Chinese" in it, and it is possible that some 

 " Bourbon " Rose might be the other parent. 



GROUP XXXIII. The Bourbon Rose. This is sup- 

 posed to be a hybrid between the " Chinese" and " Four 

 Seasons." The flowers as a rule are not large, but many 

 of them are rich in colour, finely formed, and produced in 

 great abundance. The long nights and copious dews of 

 autumn are particularly favourable to their development. 



