ROSA WICHURAIANA 
nmltiflora varieties, from a horticultural point of view it exhibits some 
very marked differences, such as its decumbent habit and the late 
period of its flowering, which is prolonged long after the Rose season 
has passed. It is one of the most valuable of our recent introductions, 
for its prostrate growth, its bright, glistening, box-like foliage and its 
abundant small white flowers with delicious wild-rose fragrance. In 
the type the branches, which lie closely upon the ground, often extend 
to fifteen feet or more ; but hitherto this distinctive characteristic has 
not been transmitted to the hybrids, which are inclined to be more 
rampant and to throw up strong erect or arching branches instead of 
the creeping and trailing growths of the type ; the box-like leaflets 
have likewise disappeared. The aim now should be to retain these 
good qualities, and with a Rose which hybridises so freely this ought 
not to be an insurmountable difficulty. Although none of the hybrids 
have preserved the main Wichuraiana features, they form nevertheless 
a very beautiful race of Roses, which has been a great addition to our 
gardens. Among the most notable of them is jersey Beauty , raised 
in New Jersey by Manda in 1899, with almost persistent foliage and 
large, single flowers, which in the bud state are pale chrome in colour 
and change to cream white in the expanded flower. Rene Andre 
resulted from a cross with L Ideal, and has inherited something of the 
soft sunset colouring together with the tea scent of its parent. Perhaps 
the greatest favourite of all the Wichuraiana hybrids is the charming 
Dorothy Perkins, whose beautiful pure pink flowers resemble a clustered 
Rose de Meaux . It is impossible here to enumerate all the hybrids 
of this Rose which are deserving of notice, and many of which are 
extremely beautiful, although we are now only at the beginning of 
what may be accomplished in this direction by judicious hybridising. 
There is a great future for W ichuraiana hybrids, and we may confidently 
hope to see a glorified race retaining the foliage, habit and constitution 
of the type together with variety of colour and the true Rose scent. 
In the type we have the wild-rose odour, and Rene Andre is tea- 
scented, but in no hybrid so far have we the exquisite fragrance of the 
Provence Roses. 
Roses vary as much in perfume as they do in colour ; each has its 
own distinctive scent, except in the instances, sad to say far too frequent 
among the newer Roses, where the flowers are absolutely devoid of 
any fragrance whatever. 
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