Monthly 
Roses 
Climbing Nabonnand. 
Reine Olga de Wirtemburg. 
Waltham Climber. 
Field Marshal, 
Docteur Rouges. 
Noella Nabonnand. 
The sketch of the Rose Fellemberg suggests the great 
effect of colour which China Roses may give. It was 
painted in Scotland in the middle of September, when Hybrids 
and Teas in the same garden were almost bare. ‘The bushes 
had been pegged in the spring, so as to get flowers both high 
and low, and the six-foot-long shoots, crowned with great heads 
of bloom, were of the summer’s growth. It is a Rose that 
needs sunshine to look its best, as without warm light its 
tint is apt to be magenta in tone. Close by were beds of the 
old red Monthly, with deep crimson flowers and shoots, and 
buds of a fine bronze red; pure white Roses like the dwarf 
Polyanthas, either dana Montravel, or Perle des Neiges, would 
look well with these, and there could be beds too of the old pink 
Monthly and Hermosa. In colouring these two last are the 
same, but the latter is the stronger grower. 
For a small garden, or some space enclosed perhaps with 
a yew hedge, or a group of beds under the windows, where 
perpetual colour is felt to be needed, nothing will prove so 
prolific as China and Polyantha Roses, but if the whole effect 
of the beds is to be considered, a choice must be made at the 
first between shades of rose and salmon pink. Those mentioned 
above rank among the rose shades, and are undoubtedly the most 
vigorous, but the following salmon pinks are in my view the 
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