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JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



leaved Rose. We have regained this, and the smaller flowered 

 Provence. The Crested Moss Rose was raised by Colvile. 

 Imagine Roses in the King's Road, Chelsea ! 



The Damask Rose and Alba were of this period. One regrets 

 them for their charming colouring, and is glad to find that the 

 Painted Damask (Leda), Madame Hardy, and Madame Zoetman 

 (whites), amongst the Damasks, and Blush Hip and Felicite 

 amongst the Albas with the single and semi-double forms, have 

 been regained from cottage gardens of our own neighbourhood. 



The Hybrid Chinas were a special product of the early years 

 of the nineteenth century, and have been retained and brought 

 greatly into notice again for pillar Roses. 



The finer sorts, like Blairii No. 2, raised on Stamford Hill,, 

 Coup d'Hebe, Madame Plantier (of which there is an old Cheshunt 

 legend to the effect that a big bush frightened a timid Londoner 

 back to town — ghosts being frequent in those days), Fulgens, 

 and General Jacqueminot : to the last we owe an obligation, for 

 my father always thought that his Duke of Edinburgh, still one of 

 the most brilliant H.P.'s, was the result of crossing the hybrid 

 perpetual General Jacqueminot with the old hybrid China of like 

 name, Wolsey, the foreman who did it, being evidently a man in 

 advance of his time. We have refound besides those named 

 Paul Perras, Paul Ricaut, and Brennus. 



Double Scotch Briars I have tried to get back, but if they are 

 not lost they have lost their names even in the far north, and 

 though we have got now the double white, purple, pink, blush, 

 and yellow, we have only been able to trace of named sorts James' 

 purple and William IV. The fine single B. altaica of Kew (and 

 B. grandiflora of Canon Ellacombe) looks like a large variety of 

 the Burnet Rose of the West Welsh and »Scotch coasts. The 

 Austrian Roses have developed Harrisonii and Persian Yellow, 

 the only doubles produced. 



I am always a strong supporter of the climbing Roses, their 

 uses are so manifold. The Boursaults and Ayrshire clothe our 

 tumbledown buildings. Evergreen Roses cover up the ugly 

 wires on which we base our arches, and the Multifloras (or 

 Polyanihas) have produced Turner's Crimson Rambler. 



I will not weary you with the earlier H.P.'s. They played 

 their part, and do not want recalling. But amongst the smaller 

 classes, the big single Macartney Rose (bracheata alba simplex 



