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late flowering, extend the season and particularly lend themselves to 

 decorative purposes. The introduction of these, amongst other advan- 

 tages, led to the revival and greater use of those weeping standards, 

 which previously had been confined almost entirely to the white 

 varieties. 



The crosses of the Wichuraiana with the Teas have produced yet 

 another race, flowering earlier and giving us combinations of colour at 

 once charming and distinct. Among this earlier blooming race one of 

 the most beautiful is ' Jersey Beauty,' with its large, delicate, single 

 flowers and evergreen foliage. I have been fortunate enough to 

 secure some seedlings from it, possessing in a considerable extent the 

 same desirable characteristics. Among these are 'Ariel,' a cross 

 between * Jersey Beauty ' and * Tea Eambler,' and * Shower of Gold,' 

 a cross betw^een ' Jersey Beauty ' and a yellow hybrid Tea. Eecollect- 

 ing that ' Jersey Beauty ' has already Tea blood in its veins, it is not 

 surprising that some of the seedhngs from the latter cross have lost 

 their climbing habit, although retaining the beautiful foliage of the 

 Wichuraianas. A similar thing occurred earlier with the Multifloras, 

 which produced a race of Pompom roses, now greatly developed, from 

 Eose ' Pacquerette,' and gave us the best roses for edging our borders. 



It will be seen how largely the influence of Rosa Wichuraiana enters 

 into our modern rambling roses, and we begin to realize the common 

 aim that hybridists have had in view, for if we examine the various 

 crosses that have been made with Wichuraianas we see that they have 

 nearly all been made with perpetual-flowering varieties, and so it is to 

 be presumed that the ultimate end in view was to secure a race of 

 perpetual-flowering ramblers. All the more singular is it, then, that 

 while this end has not been attained to any great degree, other results, 

 perhaps not so much expected, have been reached, for the Wichuraiana 

 foliage has to a very large extent been retained, as have also its later- 

 blooming character, its comparative hardiness, and its habit of flowering 

 upon the young wood. All these things have, even if they have not 

 been directly worked for, added desirable qualities to our rambling 

 roses, and it is apparent that even the perpetual-blooming tendency 

 must be there, though at present dormant, and only needing to be 

 brought to surface, so to speak, to give us an autumnal flowering race. 



One or two present-day raisers of new roses, too, have been making 

 wider experiments, and to this end have not contented themselves with 

 working on one or two lines, but have thrown out feelers in other 

 directions and with a certain amount of success. Among these names 

 may be mentioned Lambert, of Trier, who, by working with the 

 Musks and Noisettes, has obtained the best perpetual rambler up to 

 date, 'Trier,' which, if a little deficient in colour, is a most distinct 

 advance. 



Now we must not forget that the early hybridists used the Musk- 

 rose as seed-parent, although they did not carry their developments 

 very far. ' Mme. d'Arblay,' already mentioned, * Princesse de Nassau,' 

 ' The Garland,' a:x all hybrids of the Musk. But the introduction of 



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