SELECT ROSES, AND THEIR MANAGEMENT. 
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such flowers as the (Hybrid China) Chenedole 
and La Meteore, make a more rich display 
than more perfect flowers of the same colours 
could do. A very double flower cannot show 
to advantage that peculiar warmth of colour, 
on account of the number of petals. Select 
also as great a variety of colour as possible. 
In the early part of the summer, as soon as 
the bunch of buds has become fully developed, 
cut out some, about three or four, of the 
forwardest buds. By so doing, a greater num- 
ber of flowers will be had open at the same 
time. Do not cut away the latest buds, as 
it improves the appearance of the bunches of 
expanded flowers, to exhibit them accompa- 
nied by unexpanded buds. 
SELECT ROSES. 
In the selection which follows we have been 
guided by the old classification adopted in the 
principal rose catalogues ; the selection can 
of course be made to accord with any im- 
proved and more simple arrangement that 
may be hereafter suggested. Our object will 
be to select the finest-shaped and most con- 
spicuous varieties of each class ; and to give 
such hints respecting their peculiarities as we 
may think likely to be useful. It is customary 
to divide roses into summer-flowering, and 
autumnal flowering : we shall take the former 
first. 
Provence Hoses. • 
1. Common Cabbage, rose. 
2. Cristata, rose, buds beautifully fringed. 
3. Unique, or White, white. 
4. Unique Panache, white, with pink 
stripes. 
5. Wellington, deep rose. 
6. Wilberforce, vivid cherry pink. 
Numbers 1 to 5 are very double flowers, of 
large size, and beautifully scented ; 2 and 4 
ought to be in every collection ; 6 is a very 
large flower, with large firm petals, and is 
very conspicuous on the plant : before coming 
into flower, it ought to have some support, 
as the weight of the flowers bends the shoots 
down too much ; 1 to 5 make neat standards 
or dwarfs ; 6 is a more robust grower ; 2, 4, 
and 5 are fine show roses, and 6 makes a 
distinct one to show in 50 or 100 varieties. 
Moss It oses. 
1. Blush, delicate blush. 
2. Common, deep rose colour. 
3. Comtesse de Noe, bright crimson 
purple. 
4. Celina, brilliant crimson. 
5. Lancel, deep reddish rose. 
6. Princesse Royale, salmon pink. 
7. White Bath, white, occasionally striped 
with pink. 
8. Unique de Provence, pure white. 
9. Laneii, rosy carmine. 
10. De Meaux, blush. 
11. Oscar Poulard, purplish crimson. 
12. Etna, light rosy crimson. 
I'd. Scarlet, bright carmine. 
14. Mossue paitout, rose, the leaves are 
covered with a rusty moss. 
15. De Metz, bright rose. 
16. Eclatante, brilliant rose. 
17. Luxembourg, crimson, tinged with 
purple. 
18. Mossue presque partout, rose. 
Numbers 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, and 9, are fine double 
roses, of large size ; 3 and 4 are very fine 
dark varieties, but rather small, and semi- 
double. 8 is sometimes deformed, like the 
Provence Unique, but is abundantly mossed. 
The bloom of No. 9 hangs on the plant but a 
very short time. 10 is very small, and 
short-lived. No. 11 is a slender -growing dark 
variety, more double than 4, but not so 
bright. 12 is very free-growing ; not very 
double, but very beautiful. With the excep- 
tion of 10 and 11, they all make neat stand- 
ards, and all are well adapted for dwarfs, 
either for beds or mixed borders. 13 is very 
striking, till about half blown; and 14 is 
worth growing, as a curiosity. 
The Provence and Moss roses require close 
pruning, leaving from two to four eyes from 
the previous year's cutting. Cut out all 
weak shoots, bearing in mind that it is requi- 
site to get strong shoots as well as flowers. For 
six first-rate show varieties of Moss, take Nos. 
1, 3, 5, 6, 7, and 9 ; for twelve, Nos. 2, 4, 8, 
10, 12, and 13. Moss Princess Adelaide is 
a rose worth growing in a large garden, on 
account of its robust half-climbing habit ; it 
should be grown to a six-feet pole, and only 
the tips of the shoots taken off at the winter 
pruning. Nos. 15 to 18 may be grown in a 
collection, where more varieties of moss are 
wanted ; and they would occasionally come 
in to show. Moss roses should always be 
shown by themselves, and in a great many 
places they are so. Where that is the case, 
at least double the number of sorts ought to be 
grown, and two or more plants of some of the 
finest sorts should be planted, so as to afford 
plenty to pick from. All Moss roses are 
finely scented. 
Hybrid Provence Roses. 
1. Aspasie, silvery blush. 
2. Blanche Fleur, creamy white, with 
beautiful shade of pale blush. 
3. Comtesse Plater, cream, tinged with 
fawn in the centre. 
4. Glope White Hip, creamy white. 
5. Gloire de France, deep rose, very large. 
6. La Volupte, deep rosy red. 
7. Laura, rosy blush. 
