EXPERT OPINIONS 89 



The following eleven were in fair condition and recovered 

 their form during the season : 



Alfred Colomb Mrae. Gabriel Luizet 



Anna de Diesbach Mme. Victor Verdier 



Baronne Provost Pierre Notting 



Countess of Oxford Prince of Wales 



Eugene Furst Ulrich Brunner 

 Lyonnaise 



This section, together with many in the northern states, 

 suffered for the want of a suitable number of climbing roses 

 that might be carried over the winter with an easily prepared 

 protection, until the advent of the Crimson Rambler, which 

 reached England from Japan in 1878. This was followed soon 

 after by Rosa Wichuraiana and its hybrids. Up to this time 

 we had to be content with Queen of the Prairie, Baltimore 

 Belle, Russell's Cottage, and Multiflora rose Greville, or 

 Seven Sisters. The first two were produced by Feast of 

 Baltimore in 1843 by hybridizing that most excellent hardy 

 Prairie rose, R. setigera, with some of the garden forms of the 

 day. I have often wondered why hybridizers had not used 

 this hardy semi-climbing rose more frequently in their work. 

 About all the climbing roses, bearing a large percentage 

 of Rugosa or Wichurai- / ana blood, are hardy with a 

 slight protection in fiwaSt w inter. Which is the best 

 is merely a matter of ^B ^r choice. 



