54. GARDENS OF ENGLAND 



until we may have roses all the year. Many 

 countries have contributed to this worthy end, as 

 the names of the roses indicate, but the Britisher, 

 at first slack, or, perhaps, slow in appreciation of 

 what was going on around him, has awakened to 

 a sense of the importance of raising new hybrids 

 and varieties to beautify our gardens. Many 

 beautiful roses have been raised of late years, 

 several of which are as popular as those that have 

 come from other lands. And surely every rosarian, 

 no matter of what nationality he may be, will 

 remember the great work of Henry Bennett, who 

 died many years ago on the threshold, one might 

 say, of his interesting and important career. It 

 was he who raised the hybrid Mrs. John Laing, 

 a rose almost as popular as Gloire de Dijon, Her 

 Majesty, Grace Darling, Lady Mary Fitzwilliam, 

 and sorts almost as famous. 



The origin of our garden roses, except, of course, 

 the species or wild kinds, is shrouded somewhat in 

 obscurity. Early in the last century the blush tea 

 rose was introduced from China, and a few years 

 later the yellow variety came from the same 

 country. The late Mr. William Paul, one of the 

 most distinguished of British rosarians, in his 

 famous work, The Rose Garden, links the China 



