NATIONAL ROSE CONFERENCE. 



179 



Group 14. — The Hybrid Noisette.— Similar to the last, 

 except that the flowers are smaller and produced in considerable 

 clusters. The lovely white rose " Madame Plantier " helongs 

 here. 



Group 15. — The Hybrid Bourbon. — These roses are pro- 

 bably hybrids between the " Bourbon " and " Hybrid Chinese," 

 resembling the latter parent in the more prominent features. 

 The well-known " Charles Lawson " and " Coupe d'Hebe " 

 belong here. This, and the two preceding groups, are invaluable 

 for planting where masses of flowers are Avanted for distant 

 effect in summer. 



Section IV. 



Group lQ.—The Prairie Bose. — This is a group of promise 

 rather than of actual merit. I do not know any one variety 

 that I should care to grow in the garden. Nuttall calls it " a 

 very fine-flowering species," and it does look as if something 

 might come of it in the future if judiciously hybridised. 



Section V. 



Group 17. — The Ayrshire Bose. — These are climbing roses 

 of hardy vigorous growth, well suited for covering rough places, 

 whether banks, fences, or old trees on lawns, or in shrubberies. 



Group 18. — The Evergreen Bose.— This is another group of 

 hardy, vigorous climbing roses, similar to the last in appearance 

 and more valuable for many purposes, as they hold some of 

 their leaves during winter. " Felicite-Perpetue " is a splendid 

 white rose for a wall or house with north or west aspect, 

 growing rampantly and flowering freely there. 



Section VI. 



Group 19.— TJie Boursault Bose. — I have never seen the 

 varieties of this group grow and flower better than they did on 

 a north wall in my father's nursery some forty years ago. 

 Although a gravel walk ran within two feet of the wall, the 

 latter was every year completely covered with hanging masses of 

 flowers. 



Section VII. 



Group 20. — The Mult i flora Bose.— This group furnishes 

 some very pretty and distinct roses, and I remember when they 

 were much more popular than at present. Some of the loveliest 

 varieties are tender, and it is probably owing to this fact that 



E 



