328 THE BOOK OP THE ROSE chap. 



evergreen foliage. This valuable Eose has one 

 most desirable piece of good manners as a climber ; 

 other Noisettes and Eoses of the Gloire de Dijon 

 race are apt, when grown as climbers, to become 

 weak and bare of foliage towards the bottom so that 

 all the blooms are out of reach and the plants look 

 unsightly from the naked condition of the lower 

 branches. This is not the case with E^ve d'Or, and it 

 adds considerably to its merits as a climber that the 

 lower parts of the plant are fairly covered with 

 blooms and foliage. The blooms come in clusters, 

 well shaped, of much the same colour as Safrano and 

 Sunset, but not good enough in shape, size, or 

 lasting qualities for exhibition. It is wonderful as a 

 free-bloomer, the plant being smothered with flowers 

 from top to bottom during the first crop, and a fair 

 amount of blooms continue into the autumn. Quite 

 hardy in this country, a capital Eose for arches, and 

 all round one of the very best of climbing Eoses. 

 Not so large as Eeine Marie Henriette or even 

 Gloire de Dijon, but superior to either in its manner 

 of growth on the lower parts of the plant. 



JRuhy Queen (Conard and Jones, 1899). — Not so 

 well known as it deserves. Early loose flowers — in 

 small truss. Eecommended as a weeping standard. 



Tausendschon (Schmidt, 1907). — A charming ad- 

 dition to the dwarf pillar Eoses, colour bright satiny 

 pink, the flowers produced in clusters with a 

 pendulous habit that stand well out from the 

 foliage. 



Tea Bamhler (Paul and Son, 1903).— A beautiful 

 Hybrid tea'witb strong polyantha leanings — a rampant 

 grower, very free flowering, its only fault is that it is 

 not perpetual. Colour deep coppery pink in the bud. 



