Io8 THE BOOK OF GARDENING. 



•soft pink ; a well known and indispensable favourite. Madame 

 Fernet Ducher, yellow, tinged with a darker shade ; this variety 

 will become popular for bedding : vigorous habit. Marquise 

 ■de Salisbury, red semi-double flowers ; a useful bedding variety. 

 Reine Marie Henriette, deep carmine, buds long, pointed, and 

 handsome ; a valuable climbing variety. Souvenir de Madame 

 Eugene Verdier and Souvenir de Madame Carnot are two 

 ■creamy-white flowered varieties of exceptional merit, and worthy 

 ■of a place in every garden, being vigorous, hardy-, and free- 

 flowering. 



Exhibition Roses. 



With Roses for exhibition a good soil suitable for the growth 

 of the plants in a vigorous state is essential ; if the land is 

 naturally unsuitable it must be improved. A good sound loamy 

 soil, rather heavy in character, is admirable, if well drained, for 

 all classes ; but for Teas the soil may with advantage be made 

 somewhat lighter. Again, the situation ought to be quite open, 

 and fully exposed to the benefits of solar influences. It 

 should be also far enough away from large forest trees to prevent 

 shading, or robbery of plant-food by the roots of such. If 

 planted within reach of these, their roots take possession of 

 the bed or soil prepared for the Roses, and rapidly absorb 

 the elements of plant-food to the detriment of the Roses, while 

 any manures applied afterwards are simply wasted, as the roots 

 of the trees quickly seize it, and aggravate the evil. 



There are various opinions as to the best stocks for the 

 production of exhibition Roses : the general one seems decidedly 

 in favour of the seedling briar for all sections. The Manetti is 

 very suitable for a few varieties, as for instance, vigorous-growing 

 sorts in the Hybrid Perpetual section, and also for a few of 

 the Hybrid Teas. In the former section may be included the 

 following, as succeeding well on the ^Nlanetti when budded 

 below the ground level : Abel Carriere, Annie Wood, Baroness 

 Rothschild, Beauty of Waltham, Centifolia Rosea, Countess ot 

 Rosebery, Duchess de ]Morny, Duke of Connaught, Etienne 

 Levet, Francois Michelon, John Hopper, INIadame Victor Verdier, 

 Pride of Waltham, Senateur Vaisse, Ulrich Brunner, and Violette 

 Bowyer. Amongst Hybrid Teas that answer on the Manetti are : 

 Camoens, Captain Christy, Cheshunt Hybrid, Clara Watson, 

 Grace Darling, La France, and Viscountess Folkestone. Most 

 -of the Rose specialists in the trade sell the varieties on the 



