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THE CENTURY BOOK OF GARDENING. 



M u s k - 1 i k c 

 odour, but this 

 is distilled only 

 on still, damp 

 mornings or 

 evenings. Eliza 

 Verry is \\ hite, 

 very lree, the 

 flowers appear- 

 ing in large 

 corymbs; 

 Rivers' Musk 

 is a pretty pink 

 v a r i e t y , well 

 worth cultivat- 

 ing. Of the 

 Hybrid Musks, 

 the Garland is 

 o f r a m pant 

 growth, and an 

 e x t r e m e I v 

 beautiful com- 

 panion to the 

 Crimson Ram- 

 bler. It lias 

 i in m e n s e 

 corymbs of tiny 

 white flowers 

 with innumer- 

 able little buff- 

 coloured buds 

 peering out 



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M a d 

 d'Arb 

 another 

 pant 

 stron 



them, 

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ay is 

 ram- 

 lose with 

 shoots 



like walk! 

 sticks, 

 spreads 

 freely in 

 most at 



flowers are of 

 a rich shade. 

 Alister Stella 

 Gray is a valu- 

 able autumn 

 climber, with 

 huge corymbs 

 of white 

 flowers. The 

 yellow buds are 

 very charming. 

 Of the very 

 tender Noisette 

 Roses (be fol- 

 lowing are the 

 best (where 

 possible they 

 should be given 

 a warm posi- 

 tion, and of 

 c ourse they 

 would do well 

 green- 



La- 

 is a 

 white 

 too 



group is 

 cind for a 



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about 



the wild garden : indeed, the whol 

 ome [here. Nivea is a beautiful 

 pergola or low fence. 

 Noisette Roses. — The true Noisettes are distinguishable 

 Irom the Teas by the e'egant pendulous growths, and 

 large clusters of flowers with a peculiar Musk-like odour. 

 They almost invariably flower from the long secondary 

 growths of the previous year, and require careful pruning, 

 merely thinning out old and very small wood. The long 

 grow ths should be practically untouched with the knife. 

 Among the hardiest kinds the best are : Aimee Vibert, one 

 ol the most useful of our pure snow white climbers. It is 

 as evergreen as any Rose, and the foliage is rich dark 

 green. It makes a good companion to Crimson Rambler, 

 and is also an excellent variety budded on a tall stem to 

 form a weeping plant. Celine Forestier is another old 

 favourite, with primrose yellow flowers. It succeeds well 

 as a Standard, and too many of the lateral growths must 

 not be removed, for on these the best flowers are often 

 produced. It makes a splendid pot plant if the long 

 growths are twined about in balloon shape, so as to induce 

 all eyes to break. Deschamps (syn. Longworth Rambler) 

 is one of our best rosy crimson autumnal climbers. 

 Fellenberg is good for bedding or massing, its colour 

 being a rather dull rosy crimson. A splendid novelty 

 seems likely to eclipse this old Rose. Its awful name is 

 Gruss au Teplitz, but its colour is a bright currant red. 

 Other good useful kinds, although somewhat tender, are : 

 Adelina Viviand Morel, small yellow and orange flowers, 

 climbing habit. Jesephine Bernacchi has beautiful long 

 buds of a creamy yellow. Marie Robert is a vigorous 

 kind, with flowers of the same shade as Ernest Metz. It 

 is a valuable pink climber. W. A. Richardson is one of 

 the most popular of all Roses, but it has one bad qualitv, 

 viz., yielding a quantity of white floweis instead of the 

 rich apricot shade so much admired. This is no doubt 

 attributable to our cold springtime, for usually the autumn 



A CLIUHIKG ROSE. 



sulphi 



yellow flowers, and makes 



house) 

 marque 

 lovely 

 Rose, 

 tender for out- 

 doors here. In 

 Cannes it grows 

 to perfection, 

 and is much 

 grown for 

 cutting. 

 Solfaterre is not 

 so tender, 

 although a 

 seedling of the 

 last-named. It 

 has large- 

 trusses of 

 excellent con- 



servatory Rose. 



Marechal Niel is a true Noisette. Those who have 

 hitherto failed with this Rose should try it upon a hedge 

 Briar about 3ft. high. If it commences to bulge out at 

 the bud. cut a longitudinal slit down the Briar stem, just 

 the depth of the bark. This wiil let out superfluous sap 

 and often save the plant from further injury through 

 canker. In cultivating this Rose indoors it should have, 

 if pos-ible, a house to itself. Give it a good border, the 

 same as would be provided for a vine. Induce it to make 

 long rods by affording plenty of heat and moisture during 

 the summer. Ripen off well in autumn, and it will then 

 give an abundance of bloom from these young rods. As 

 soon as the flowers are over cut down hard, say to two or 

 three eyes of the main stem, and give the same heat and 

 moisture as before, to provide rods for next season's 

 display. Cloth of Gold is not worth growing in this 

 country, especially as Marechal Niel is a far better Rose. 

 Fortune's Yellow is a charming Rose, the loose graceful 

 flowers full of colour, yellow, apricot, and a minglb g of 

 other shades. It requires similar treatment to Marechal 

 Niel. LTdeal is beautiful in colour, but disappointing as 

 a climber. It is advisable to grow it as a Standard or 

 bush. Mme. Pierre Cochet really surpasses 'W. A. 

 Richardson in some respects. Its flower is an intense 

 coppery orange colour. Everybody should have this Rose, 

 and if no space can be found for it as a climber, then it 

 will grow equally as well as a bush. 

 Polyantha Rose [ft. multiflora). — The Polyantha Roses 

 are for the most part of low growth, the flowers being 

 very small indeed, as many as fifty appearing in a single 

 cluster. Doubtless they owe their existence to a cross 

 between the second group of Rosa multiflora and the 

 Tea-scented. Most of them are delightful edging plants 

 to Rose beds, and form rich groups by themselves, 

 flowering early and late, and making a glorious mass gf 



