CHAPTER VIII 



Roses for Special Purposes 



Abbreviations. — (B.), Bourbon; (D.), Damask; (F.), 

 French or Gallica; (H.B.), Hybrid Bourbon; (H.C.), 

 Hybrid China; (H.N.), Hybrid Noisette; (H.P.), 

 Hybrid Perpetual, including some of the hybrid Bour- 

 bons; (H.T.), Hybrid Tea; (M.), Multiflora; N.), 

 Noisette; (P.), Prairie (roses derived from R. setigera); 

 (R.H.), Rambler hybrids (Crimson Rambler, one 

 parent); (T.), Tea-scented, (W.H.), Wichuraiana 

 hybrid. 



We can have roses almost anywhere. It 

 is even possible to have them in poor, 

 sandy soil, but it is not possible to have the 

 best double varieties without the best soil 

 and the best care. There can be roses on 

 walls, on trellises, on tree trunks, on arbours, 

 in the city garden, at the seashore, and about 

 the mountain home where your summer is 

 enjoyed. There are roses that bloom in the 

 summer, others that make the garden glow 

 in autumn, and some that are so lavish with 

 flower that they repeat their gifts of colour 



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