14 THE BOOK OP THE ROSE chap. 



and his excellent culture of pot and decorative 

 Eoses, long held a high position in the cult of the 

 Queen of Flowers. 



There are many others of high standing, a large 

 proportion of whom probably sell as good plants as 

 those I have mentioned. And if they have not come 

 to the actual front yet as exhibitors, it may be that 

 distance or climate, or a disinclination to incur the 

 whole expense and trouble of competing in the first 

 rank, have prevented their names being chronicled 

 hitherto as the winners of the championship. 



Among amateurs the best known and most suc- 

 cessful exhibitors are Mr. E. B. Lindsell of Hitchin, 

 and Bev. J. H. Pemberton of Havering, for HP.s, 

 and Mr. A. H. Gray of Bath, and Mr. 0. G. Orpen 

 of Colchester, for Teas, though in each division 

 there are others treading closely on their heels, and 

 occasionally victorious, notably Mr. Conway Jones 

 of Gloucester. 



Classification 



Botanically, the number of actual species of 

 Eoses is very great, even the wild Dog-Eose of our 

 hedges being divided into many sub-species, as may 

 be seen from the great variety in foliage and habit 

 in the early growths of briar stocks in nurserymen's 

 quarters. Of the cultivated classes, probably most 

 Eose-exhibitors will only care to know about the 

 two great divisions in which they are interested : 

 viz. Hybrid Perpetuals, including Hybrid Teas 

 and Bourbons, and Teas and Noisettes. Com- 

 paratively few will be interested in the Austrian, 

 Chinas, Polyantha, Moss, and Provence races : and 



