gardens—it is undoubtedly an excellent full dark red Rose, and Rugosa 
the most fastidious could desire nothing better of its kind, but it Roses 
is uncertain, and will produce many stunted, brown, and half- 
formed blooms before a really good one is obtained; whereas 
La Rostére, under the same treatment and conditions (é¢. 
budded on Briar stock), I have found so much more satisfactory 
that it can be relied upon to give you a profusion of well- 
formed flowers, and is of such a strong and accommodating 
habit that whether carefully and hard pruned, or allowed to 
grow up and about at will, there is still to be seen a plenty of 
Roses that are of that lovely dark and velvety red, which calls 
forth an exclamation of appreciation from all who see them. 
The above-named Roses are all excellent doers here, and are of 
strong constitution, and may therefore be said to be the prime 
favourites of their respective kinds. 
There are two especial Roses which should be in every 
garden, either one specimen bush of each or, where it is 
possible, a hedge, according to the space available. ‘They are 
the two gems arrived at by crossing with Rugosas, and although 
they may be well known to many people, their names must be 
impressed upon all who have the blessed opportunity of growing 
roses—Conrad Ferdinand Meyer and Madame Georges Bruand, 
What can be more vigorous, more beautiful, or more sweet. 
The former is a large, full, round, silvery pink, the scent from 
which will, when cut, pervade the whole room—the real old 
rose perfume; and the latter is a loose, white Rose, exceedingly 
floriferous, and having a scent quite different, but very sweet. 
A hedge of these two Roses planted, not alternately, which 
would become patchy, but mixed together in no set order, will 
take perhaps three years to grow into a fine thick ie lovely 
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