CHAPTER VII 



Types and Races 



Key to the horticultural groups — Types commonly 

 grown — Time of blooming — The hardiest races. 



A broad division of roses into two great 

 natural classes may be made: (i) summer 

 flowering and (2) summer and autumn 

 flowering. While certain individual roses 

 may be picked out as typifying the many 

 groups into which these classes are again sub- 

 divided, such minute classification is not a 

 practical one nowadays. The border lines 

 have been overlapped in all directions so that 

 for garden purposes a broader significance 

 can be given to many of the old-time larger 

 groups, ignoring the finer distinctions of the 

 hair-splitting rosarians. For the average 

 amateur an acquaintance with the Hybrid 

 Perpetual, Hybrid Tea, Tea, Noisette, Multi- 

 flora (Rambler), and Rugosa and Wichura- 

 iana is all that is necessary. In many cases 

 there are perpetual flowering forms of the 



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