Braiswick Nursery, Colchester 
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l'’or the .convenience of our customers we have placed all hybrid perpetuals, hybrid teas, Bourbons, 
teas and noisettes in alphabetical order, signifying the classes to which they belong by the letters 
following each name: T., signifying tea; II. T., hybrid tea; N, noisette; B., Bourbon. This 
alteration will, we trust, meet the approval of our customers, and will make it much more easy to find 
any particular name. 
The best exhibition varieties are printed in large type, i.e., Alfred Colomb. 
Those printed in small capitals are mostly good garden roses, and those producing small button- 
hole flowers. 
THE HYBRID PERPETUALS are a very beautiful class of rose. They are perfectly hardy, 
and cannot be too highly recommended. To those who grow for exhibitions they are indispensable. 
TEAS, of which we have a stock of 50,000 plants all on briar stocks, may be called the “ fair sex ” 
roses, not because they are more delicate or tender than the hybrid perpetuals, but because the 
flowers are so delicately-beautiful and refined as to be unrivalled. They are ever-blooming from May 
to November, and last a very long time when cut. A slight protection in the form of brake or bracken, 
tucked into the heads of the plants, should be given in very seveie weather, dwarf plants may be earthed 
up like celery ; a few degrees of frost will not hurt them. They rarely take mildew, and are 
absolutely fungus-proof. 
A high position and good porous soil suit them best, and undoubtedly 
the finest flowers are produced on HALF-STANDARDS, whether in the 
open ground or in pots. They like liberal treatment in manuring, and 
when planted in masses nothing can be more beautiful. 
If large blooms ore required for exhibition, teas must be pruned close, leaving only about three 
eyes on each shoot, but if grown for garden ornamentation very little pruning is required, cutting away 
only the weakest wood. For this class we prefer good decomposed stable manure. 
THE HYBRID TEAS are rapidly increasing, and each year some good novelty is placed before 
us. These require similar treatment to the hybrid perpetuals. They are, perhaps, the best autumnal 
bloomers, taking La France, Viscountess Folkestone, Caroline Testout, etc., as the type. 
THE NOISETTES are mostly strong growers, adapted for climbing, and many of them worthy 
of a south wall. They flower in clusters, and should be pruned sparingly. Mm echul Niel is the best 
of this class. 
Only those sorts which are priced in the column for standards and 
half-standards can be had as such this year. THEY ARE VERY FINE 
PLANTS, BOTH TEAS AND H.P.’S, EQUAL TO ANY WE HAVE GROWN IN 
IN PAST YEARS. 
Our dwarf roses are budded so close to the roots of 
the stock on which they are worked, that they are as short 
legged as if on their own roots, being an immense advantage 
»for fleet planting, which we strongly advocate. 
