THE CENTURY BOOK OF GARDENING 



Mister Stella Gray, Mme. Chauvry, Kaiserin Frederick', Climbing Perle des Jardins, and 

 Climbing Niphetos. Of Noisettes none are more charming than Mme. Alfred Carriere, Aimee 

 Vibert, W. A. Richardson, Celine Forestier, Reve d'Or, L'Ideal, and Mme. P. Cochet. Of 

 Hybrid Teas choose Cheshunt Hybrid, Reine Marie Henriette, Waltham Climber No. II!., 

 Reine Olga de Wurtemberg, 

 Souvenir de Mme. J. Metral, 

 Pink Rover, Marie Lavallee, 

 and Gustave Regis. 



The Hybrid Perpetual 

 Rose. 



This group of Roses has 

 been overshadowed consider- 

 ably, as far as the garden 

 is concerned, by the dainty 

 Tea varieties ; but to ignore 

 the older and stronger race 

 is wrong. Hybrid Perpetual 

 Roses possess much beauty. 

 The flowers are often of 

 resplendent colouring and 

 strong fragrance, richer and 

 more fulsome, perhaps, than 

 the soft perfume of the Tea 

 Rose, although as welcome 

 in the garden. Unfortunately 

 hot suns quickly destroy their 

 freshness ; the petals seem 

 too stout and velvetv to with- 

 stand days of tierce sunlight. 

 If delicate and subtle tints 



ROSE COMING OVER WALL, 



are less frequent m the 



Hybrid Perpetuals than the Tea Rose, there is greater brilliancy, richer perfume, and hardiness. 

 The Hybrid Tea varieties may be exhibited with the Hybrid Perpetuals, but the former will not 

 be described with them, as they are alluded to when reviewing the Tea-scented section. 



The Hybrid Perpetual Roses, as the name signifies, are of hybrid origin, but the Tea- 

 scented kinds have greater claim to the description of "perpetual," as they commence to 

 bloom quite as early, and remain in beauty even into the winter when the weather is mild. 

 They have their origin in the Damask Perpetual on the one side, and the Gallica, Hybrid 

 Chinese, Bourbon, and allied tribes on the other. All the beautiful varieties now in gardens 

 have been raised since 1844, the majority of the finest exhibition kinds appearing during the 

 last thirty years. The raisers of old, of whom mention may be made of Mons. Laffay, used 

 the Hybrid Chinese, Hybrid Bourbon, and others, and laid the foundation of the first Hybrid 

 Perpetual group, and were wiser than the hybridists of our own day, who hybridise Hybrid 

 Perpetuals with the Tea-scented and lose hardiness and fragrance to gain freedom of bloom. 

 Some of the more recent Hybrid Teas are by no means hardy. 



CULTIVATION. — When reasonable care is taken there is little difficulty in producing 

 handsome flowers, unless one wishes to excel in the exhibition, when of course greater skill 

 is necessary than in growing the plants simply in the garden. Always select an open spot, 

 away from trees and shrubs, and sheltered from north and north-east winds, which are more 

 hurtful to the young tender growths in spring even than frost. By shelter is not intended 



