GARDEN ROSES i;/ 



This Rose is almost the earliest to tell us that summer 

 is at hand, first by unfolding its sweet leaves, of a 

 most vivid, refreshing green, and then by its golden 

 blooms. It grows well on the Brier, but is preferable, 

 when size is an object, on its own roots, from which it 

 soon sends vigorous suckers, and so forms a large 

 bush. In pruning, the amateur will do well to re- 

 member the warning — 



' Ah me ! what perils do environ 

 The man who meddles with cold iron,' 



seeing that if he is too vivacious with his knife, he 

 will inevitably destroy all hopes of bloom. Let him 

 remove weakly wood altogether, and then only shorten 

 by a few inches the more vigorous shoots. The red 

 or copper-coloured Austrian is a most striking and 

 beautiful Rose, and should be in every garden. 



We will pass now from Garden Roses, which bloom 

 but once, to those which are called Perpetual, which, 



' Ere one flowery season fades and dies, 

 Design the blooming wonders ot the next.' 



What a change in my garden since, forty years ago, 



the ^ old Monthly ' and another member of the same 



family, but of a deep crimson complexion (Fabvier, 



most probably), were the only Roses of continuous 



bloom ! and now, among 5000 trees, not more than 



twenty are ' summer ' Roses. All the rest Perpetuals, 



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