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The Illustrated Guide for Amateur Gardeners. 
Hybrid Perpetual Roses. 
MARCHIONESS OF LORNE. 
This magnificent and beautiful class of 
Boses is better than any other adapted for 
garden and pot culture, and for exhibition. 
They continue in flower from the early part of 
June to the end of October, and are by far the 
most desirable for general cultivation. Our 
stock of these comprises many thousands of 
the newest and choicest varieties in standards 
and dwarfs, and the past season having been 
very favourable to their growth, the plants we 
offer will be found unusually well grown and 
vigorous, and may be expected to produce a 
fine display of bloom next season. 
Hints on Cultivation.— Generally spoaking the 
Rose will thrive in any good garden soil, but as it has a 
decided preference for that which inclines to the clayey or 
loamy, it is advisable in planting, where the soil is not of a 
suitable nature, to make for eaoh plant a hole of about 
eighteen inches diameter, removing a sufficient quantity of 
soil to admit of about a bushel of good rough loam with the 
addition of a fair quantity of well-decayed stable manure 
incorporated, in which to place the roots. If planting be 
done in dry weather in Autumn or in Spring, the roots of 
the plants should bo well watered before filling in with soil, 
and at all times the standards should bo firmly staked and 
tied to prevent their disturbance by the wind. To ensure a 
vigorous growth, Roses should be cut back the first season 
from planting to two or three eyes or buds on each shoot. 
The best time to do this is about March, but a longer 
succession of bloom may be had by pruning some at 
intervals from the new year to the beginning of April. 
November is perhaps the best mouth for planting, but it 
may be done with perfect safety any time from October to 
March. 
Hybrid Perpetual Roses in Collections. 
These collections are carefully made up to ensure a 
fine variety, and customers ordering may depend on 
their giving the most unqualified satisfaction. In all 
cases good healthy plants will be sent, and in the best 
variety of colour, &c., that can be included in the 
number given, but in all instances the selection must 
be left to ourselves. 
CARRIAGE FREE. IMPORTANT NOTICE, 
To meet the requirements of many of our numerous 
customers, we send all these collections Carriage Free 
to any part of the British Isles at prices quoted, and 
we make no charge for packing. 
Stcls. & Half-Stde. Dwarfs. 
12 in 12 of the most select vars. 
£1 
4 
0 
£0 
10 
6 
12 in 12 good and popular vars. 
0 
18 
0 
0 
7 
e 
25 in 26 of the most select vars. 
2 
0 
0 
1 
0 
0 
25 in 25 good and popular vars. 
1 
15 
0 
0 
14 
0 
50 in 50 of the most select vars. 
3 
15 
0 
1 
10 
0 
50 in 50 good and popular vars. 
3 
5 
0 
1 
7 
6 
100 in 50 of the most select vars. 
7 
0 
0 
3 
0 
0 
100 in 50 good and popular vars. 
6 
10 
0 
2 
10 
0 
Miscellaneous Roses. 
MOSS ROSES-Dwarfs only- 
Common Moss. Rosy blush, mossed well up the bud 
per doz. 10s. 6d. ; each Is. 
White Moss. Bure white, beautifully mossed 
per doz. 10s. Gd. ; each Is. 
PROVENCE OR CABBAGE ROSES— 
Old Provence. Rose colour, very fragrant .. . each fid. 
White Provence. White, beautiful bud ... each 9d. 
CRIMSON CHINA. Dark crimson, dwarf and 
pretty ; an old favourite ... per doz. 10s. Gd. each Is. 
each Is. 
10s. Gd. each Is. 
each Is. Gd. 
each Is. 
AUSTRIAN COPPER. Distinct and beautiful, golden terra-cotta colour, flowers single ... per doz. 10s. Gd. 
PERSIAN YELLOW. Deep golden yellow, full, double flowers, beautiful ... ... ... w 
RU GOSA. Beautiful single-flowered Japanese species, fine glossy foliage, and bright purplish crimson flowers 
RTJGOSA ALBA; A white-flowered variety of the above, beautiful in bud 
