GARDEN ROSES. 
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' Red Letter Day,' ' Mme. Leon Pain,' the new shoots seem to begin 
pushing up before the old flowering is well begun, and if the bed be 
a moderate or large one, some flowers will be found upon it even 
between the successive periods of copious flowering, and there will be 
flowers there throughout the season. This is continuous-flowering. 
5. In an uncertain climate like that of England the substance of 
the petals is of great importance. Some full flowers, like those of 
' Mme. Jules Graveraux,' * L'Innocence,' and * La France,' and even 
those with a smaller number of petals hke the ' Duchess of Wellington,' 
if subjected to a day or two of rain when they are about to open rapidly, 
turn into balls of rottenness, the outer petals become saturated with 
water and glued together, and the whole promise of the past weeks is 
destroyed and useless, fit only for the garden wheelbarrow. 
Flowers with petals of good leathery consistency, such as ' Dorothy 
Page Roberts,' will stand much rain, and even open in showery weather 
without suffering much, except it may be a few stains on the back of 
the outer petals. 
6. Fragrance is so much an attribute of the Rose that its desir- 
ability needs no words of mine. A large proportion of the old Hybrid 
Perpetuals were delightfully fragrant with the true damask perfume, 
and their replacement by the Hybrid Teas has in this respect been 
something of a loss to our gardens. The damask perfume was so 
pronounced in most of the crimson Hybrid Perpetuals that it was 
perhaps natural to expect to find it among those of the Hybrid Teas 
which acquired this colour. We do get a fine perfume from ' General 
McArthur,' and we find it rather less pronounced but still good in 
' Richmond ' and * Princess Mary ' (single) ; but, speaking generally, 
the well-known Rose fragrance in this group appears to be coming 
in the pinks rather than the crimsons. I need only mention ' Mrs. 
Bryce Allen,' ' Colcestria,' * Mrs. George Norwood,' * Gustave Gruner- 
wald,' ' Lady Alice Stanley,' and * Queen of Fragrance,' all pink 
flowers, as examples of cases, where the Rose fragrance is particularly 
well marked, to illustrate this view. 
As a class the yellows are not strong in fragrance. I think a Rose 
exhibited to-day called ' Henry Weller ' is the first case I have noticed, 
and ' Frau Karl Druschki,' the most popular white rose, has practically 
none. 
Of course the damask perfume is far from being the only rose 
scent. There is the Tea perfume, the musk or honey scent, the fruity 
odour to be found in many, particularly of the salmon and pinky- 
yellow forms — at least, I am told so, for I can appreciate this fruity 
scent myself but little, and in fact I inchne to think that these scents 
are never so satisfying as the full damask, and, though not to be 
despised and occasionally even delightful, fall short of the odour we 
expect and really relish in the Rose. 
Fragrance is often absent from the bunch-flowered Roses. Most 
of the climbing Roses first introduced, ' Crimson Rambler,' ' Dorothy 
Perkins ' and the like, were not remarkable for perfume ; but there 
