REVIVAL OF THE OLDER ROSES. 



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is one of the best south wall clothers. B. microphylla with its 

 hedgehog bud is curious, especially the double form. 



The Perpetual White Moss (Mousseux des quatres saisons) has 

 the prettiest buds of any Rose. Stanwell Perpetual is the first 

 Eose to flower of any. Of the Damasks we have old Du Roi 

 back again. 



Old Phillipe Noisette, when he raised the Crimson Noisette 

 in America, and sent some plants east to France, little thought 

 the family would culminate in Marechal Niel. The man will live 

 rather through being chairman of the day when the Rose was first 

 shown in Paris than through his martial achievements. 



Bourbons have begun again since their first hybrid was found 

 in an island in the Indian Ocean. Malmaison has never retired. 

 Armosa is par excellence the dwarf hedge Rose. Sir Joseph 

 Paxton and Bourbon Queen have been found and propagated. 



Lastly we come to the Chinas and Teas. To the first I have 

 already alluded. The early forties added Mrs. Bosanquet, still 

 the best light China, Archduke Charles, Cramoisie, and Abbe 

 Miolan Fellenberg and La Vesuve have been recalled. 



Of Tea Roses we have no revival. I should like to find 

 Originale. It existed in 1854, and is, I believe, identical with 

 Redoute's " Tea." Of older Teas, except Adam, and perhaps 

 Vicomtesse de Cazes, there does not seem to be much worth 

 revival. 



There is a moral to everything. This is mine. Wanted a 

 refuge for old Roses, where they may be found again when tastes 

 change. 



When at the Floral Committee of the Royal Horticultural 

 Society a plant occurred that did not suit the florist's taste ; it 

 was met by " Send it up to the Scientific Committee." May I 

 suggest that botanic gardens would be useful as custodians of the 

 " old Roses," keeping them ready for the next change of fashion 

 in flowers ? 



