ROSES AND ROSE GARDENS. 



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M jreau, and Little Gem make excellent pot plants grown 

 in cool greenhouses. Moss Roses are preferable upon their 

 own roots; failing this the Manetti is the best stock. The 

 following are the best varieties in the three leading 

 colours : Pink and blush : Common, the most beautilul 

 of all in the bud, good as a Standard, and useful to form a 

 low hedge ; Crested Moss, very quaint with its parsley- 

 like wrapping round the blossi mis ; Gloire des Mousseuses ; 

 Gracilis, extremely free ; Little Gem, an exquisite minia- 

 ture Moss; Mme. William Paul, one of the best perpetual 

 kinds. White : White Bath, exquisite in bud, and well 

 mossed ; Blanche Moreau, paper white, with dark green 

 mossy growth, very vigorous and free ; Comtesse de 

 Murinais, immense panicles of blossom, very attractive, 

 good as Standard or Pillar; Perpetual White Moss, very 

 interesting and free growing — it often has pink flowers, 

 with no mossy growth ; Peine Blanche, very clear white. 

 Crimsonand purple : Baron de Wassanaer, the best climber, 

 and a very good red variety ; Celina, rather small but 

 pretty ; Lanei, well mossed ; Crimson Globe, grand 

 (lowers as large exhibition Roses — it makes a good 

 Standard ; fames Ycitch, a good perpetual kind, ol a 

 purplish crimson colour; Mme. E. Ory, one of the best. 

 In addition to the above there is a single variety named 

 Muscosa japonica. It is beautifully mossed the entire 

 length of the growths, and the young shoots are very 

 pretty. 



Mllltiflora ROSC. — This is not a large class, although of late 

 years one type, the Polvantha Rose, has become popular. 

 The Multifloras proper are natives of Japan and China, 

 and were introduced into England early in the century. 



as doubtless many were induced to plant it upon south 

 walls, perhaps the worst place for it. It seems more 

 adapted to the mixed border. Here upon a 12ft. iron 

 stake it will give the greatest satisfaction and create 

 glorious colour effect for a long time. It is a splendid 

 pot plant, and even plants in 48 pots will flower, whilst 

 noble specimens trained balloon or pvramidal shape are 

 equally as free. Cuttings strike easily, and the plant 

 will probably be much used for hedges, copses, and 

 spinnies, 01 in the w ild garden. 



The only other kind of this section worth growing is 

 the De la Grifferaie, which is, like the last, a rampant 

 grower, and much used as a stock for Tea Roses in this 

 country. The flowers are deep rose, changing to w hite. 

 When used as a stock for Tea Roses, the suckers are quickly 

 recognised, for the foliage is of woolly appearance and 

 altogether distinct from that of any other Rose. If anyone 

 has this Rose it would be advisable to bud it all over 

 with the Crimson Rambler, which would result in a fine 

 specimen in a short time. The second section is summer- 

 flowering only, and of climbing forms Claire facquier is a 

 lovely Rose, but will not display its beauty under three or 

 tour years. It has immense corymbs of tiny orange yellow 

 flowers, paling to white as they expand. The growth is 

 very vigorous, but rather tender : it makes a splendid 

 pyramidal pot Rose. The single Polyantha is not unlike 

 a Blackberry in blossom. It is of rampant growth, and 

 charming in the wild garden. A much better form is 

 Thunbergi. The centre of the single white blossoms is a 

 bunch of golden stamens. Grandillora is larger still, and 

 has pure white Howers in clusters. 



BENNETT'S SEEDLING ROSE. 



Very few of the varieties are cultivated now, but one 

 kind, namely, the Crimson Rambler, is remarkably 

 popular. This famous Rose appears to ha\e been 

 accidentally discovered in Japan, and sent home by the 

 discoverer to his friend in Scotland. It was exhibited at a 

 meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society under the 

 name of Engineer. Passing into the hands of an English 

 firm, it quickly became popular because of its brilliant 

 crimson colour. Its popularity has somewhat waned, 



Musk Roses. — These are very old Roses, certainly known 

 in England 300 years ago. The flowers are insignificant 

 individually, but collectively are pleasing, and appear late 

 in August, when there is usually a dearth of blossom 

 upon climbing Roses. They require good ^ culture and 

 very little, if any, pruning. As pillar Roses they are 

 seen at their best. The variety called Fringed is very 

 pretty, and it strikes freelv from cuttings. Its colour is 

 white shaded sulphur. All the Musk Roses have a peculiar 



