THE ROSE AND ITS CULTURE. 



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] Damask Moss has also fine leaves', and is heavily 



mossed. 

 , i Baronne de Wassenaer. — Bright rose, semi-douhle 



flowering in character. 



£tna. — Brilliant crimson, large and free. 

 ' Luxembourg. — Deep crimson. 



Princess Roxjal. — Rosy-pink, large and full. 

 Gloire dea Mousseuses. — One of the most showy and 

 delicate, pale rose, edged with hlush, well mossed. 

 j There are many other Moss Roses, hut the above 



form a good collection, and full representation of the 

 hest Moss Roses. 



Like the Provence or Damask Roses, however, 

 these bloom but once in the summer. The Perpetual- 

 flowering or Hybrid Moss Roses prolong the supply 

 through the autumnal months, and thus indefinitely 

 extend the season of Moss Roses. 



Singularly enough, few of these are so heavily 

 clad with moss as their summer-blooming progeni- 

 tors ; the mixture of the Hybrid Perpetual, Bourbon, 

 or other blood that endowed them with the power 

 of continuous or autumned blooming, having appa- 

 rently washed off or out some of the mossiness in the 

 process. It is much, howe%'er, to have Moss Roses 

 in the autumn, albeit the verdant veil is thinner in 

 most of them. 



Ferpetual White Moss. — This is the most heavily 

 mossed of all the autumnal flowerers, pure white, 

 blooming in clusters. 



Salet, one of the best, is most vigorous, bright 

 rose-coloured, with black edges. 



Madame Edouard Ory. — One of the freest-flowering, 

 large full flowers, bright crimson. 



Madame William Paul. — Light rose, free-flowering, 

 vigorous. 



Eugenie Verdier. -^'Rich crimson, centres of flowers 

 a deeper shade ; good form, and vigorous. 



Alfred de Dalmas.—ChSiSte moss, blooming in 

 clusters ; rose, petals edged with white. 



Jatnes Veiteh. — One of the richest daik perpetual 

 Moss Roses ; violet, shaded crimson. 



Eugenie Guinnoiseau. — Cerise and violet, vigorous. 



Madame Supert.—'Rich red, richly mossed. 



Mousseline. — Almost white, shaded puce. 



Perpetual White or Quatre Saisons Blanche. 



Sweet-briar or Eglantine. — It may seem a 

 far leap from Moss Roses to the Sweet-briar. But 

 the latter still holds its own as one of the most wel- 

 come and the sweetest of aU the Roses in the garden. 

 No garden, large or small, can be fully furnished 

 with Roses unless it contains several plants or groups 

 of Sweet-briar, or better still, when practicable, a 

 hedge of it, to enclose and protect all the others. 



The common Sweet-briar, with its lighf green 

 iragrant leaves, and brilliant loink flowers, is too well 



knowh to need further description. It is, however, 

 less generally known that there are different varieties 

 of Sweet-briar, varying in colour from pure white to 

 fiery-red. There are also several cultivated sorts, 

 though rare, and among them a so-called Douhle 

 Scarlet and Double White. Splendens is also much 

 brighter in colour than the wild variety. Celestial 

 has delicate pale pink flowers. Purple-red is several 

 shades brighter than those of the common Sweet- 

 briai', Rosa rubiginosa. Of this there are as many 

 as half a dozen or more varieties, varying consider- 

 ably in size of foliage, number and length of prickles, 

 and size and colour of flowers. Among these Celes- 

 tial, Splendens, Scarlet, and the Double White and 

 Scarlet are the best. 



Independently of the profusion and brilliancy of 

 the flowers of the Sweet-briar, and the unrivalled and 

 unequalled fragrance of its leaves, it deserves a place 

 in every garden as one of the most brilliant-berried, or 

 rather fruited plants. Loaded with bright coral hips, 

 which hang for months if not destroyed by birds, the 

 Sweet-briar lights up the garden with a glow of 

 brightness and beauty throughout the autumn and ' 

 early winter months that few othet plants can equal, 

 none excel. 



Closely related to the Sweet-briar botanically, 

 though differing widely in the nauseous scent, arc 

 the so-called Austrian Briars, or Persian Yellow 

 Roses, Rosea lutea. The Single Yellow is a native of 

 Germany, and has been sometimes called the Yellow 

 Eglantine. The flowers are single, and of a bright 

 primrose colour. 



The Copper-coloured is of a reddish-brown hue, 

 unique among Roses or other flowers, and closely 

 resembles the Yellow, unless in the colour of the 

 flowers, and the deeper semi- chocolate hue of its wood. 

 The Persian Yellow is of more vigorous habit 

 than either of these, and has large blooms of the 

 deepest yeUow. 



Double Yellow {Williams^).— This is said to be a 

 seedling, and is by far the best of its class, being u 

 full, double Rose, of a bright yellow colour. 



Harrisonii, though classed with these Roses, is 

 widely different, alike in leaf and flower. It is 

 also fragrant— a sort of soft primrose, somewhat in 

 harmony with the fluffy and canary-like character 

 and colour of the blooms, while the scent of the 

 others is either nil or positively offensive. The 

 growth is also weaker, the flowers smaller, and it 

 blooms earlier, and in greater profusion. Hence, in 

 small gardens, where there is room for but one 

 Rose of this class, Harrisonii should be that one. 



Sootoh Hoses. — Another class of garden Roses 

 that are much neglected in England, are very gener- 

 allv "Town in Scotland. This is well named the Rosa 



