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JOUENAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



our hedges. Probably the only hybrid of merit we have is * Una,'} 

 raised at Oheshunt from a cross between Rosa canina and ' Gloire de 

 Dijon. ' It would be most serviceable if someone would take up this 

 plant and give us a new race with the distinct, beautiful habit of the 

 Dog Eose. The Dog Eose is naturally prone to variation, and there 

 are not only a number of sub-species, but also one or two natural hybrids 

 like Rosa alba, so that the possibilities are great. 



In old days there were also the * Boursaults, ' hybrids of R. alpina, 

 of which probably only one survives — * Morletti,' retained for its 

 colour; and there were some early hybrids of R. muUif.ora, such as 

 Russelliana, still'^found in old gardens, and another, ' de la GrifEerie,' 

 occasionally used as a stock for budding. The old * Seven Sisters ' 

 rose * Grevillei ' also belongs to this class. There were, too, a few \ 

 double-flowered forms of Rosa setigera, the American prairie rose, like ! 

 ' Baltimore Belle ' and ' Prairie Beauty, ' which were among the best. 

 ' Eeine Olga de Wurtemburg,' even better still, also belongs to this ; 

 class. There were added from that time up to recent days compara- 

 tively few real ramblers. Introductions like * Gloire de Dijon, ' ' Eeve 

 d'Or,' and other Noisettes cannot in the strictest sense be termed 

 ramblers. The raisers of new roses seem to have devoted themselves 

 almost exclusively to the improvement of Hybrid Perpetuals and Teas. 

 'Claire Jacquier, ' 'Paul's Single White,' 'Eeine Olga de Wurtem- 

 burg ' were among the rare additions during this period, until in 1893 

 the rose world was- startled, as it had perhaps never been before, by the 

 appearance on the scene of Turner's ' Crimson Eambler,' which, 

 coming so unexpectedly and being so well exhibited, revealed infinite 

 possibilities for new effects in rose gardens. It was inevitable that the 

 attention of hybridists should at once be directed to this new class, i 

 Three years later, what was one of the first hybrids from * Crimson 

 Eambler,' our Cheshunt rose ' Psyche ' was introduced, followed a \ 

 year later by ' Wallflower, ' and three years later still by ' Tea Eambler, ' | 

 a hybrid between ' Crimson Eambler ' and a seedling Tea, but sug- 

 gesting by its vigour and growth, so much surpassing the rambler, 

 some very rampant ancestor. 



• Introductions .from all parts of Europe and America followed closely 

 upon one another, and the use of rambler roses in our rose gardens | 

 increased rapidly year by year. 



The reintroduction of the Japanese species, Rosa Wichuraiana, at 

 this moment was most opportune, and a young American named 

 Manda, by what was little less than a stroke of genius, using this 

 almost evergreen species, introduced at once striking new features into 

 our rambling roses. The dense foliage and late flowering of that species 

 at once brought in new qualities; and later still, when this new 

 class had been more fully developed, Walsh, another American, and 

 others, by a happy thought, combined ihe results obtained with the 

 Multifloras with those gained in the hybrid Wichuraianas, thus giving 

 us such varieties as 'Lady Gay ' and ' Hiawatha,' possessing tlie best 

 qualities of both sections, and which, if not perpetual, at least by their 



