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THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
November 13. 
trast with such dark ones as Dupetit Thours and Paul 
Joseph. There are so many fine Roses among the 
Bourbons for beds, that the following list of them com¬ 
prises only varieties that are as good as their neigh¬ 
bours ; for long lists of any thing are as likely to puzzle 
strangers as not:— Acidalie, Armosa, Bouquet de Flore, 
Gelimene, Dupetit Thouars, Edward Desfosses, Emile 
Courtier, George Cuvier, Gloire de Rosamene (young 
plants), Henry Lecoq, Madame A ngelina, Marianne, Paul 
Joseph, Phoenix, Proserpine, Queen of Bourbons, Reine des 
Vierges, Souvenir de la Malmaison, Suchet. 
The following Bourbon Roses are strong growers, not 
well adapted for beds, or standards in beds, but excellent 
sorts for pillars and low walls, or for filling up the bottom 
of a rose wall, where stronger climbers are apt to get 
naked:— Amenaide, Cardinal Fesch, Gloire de Rosamene 
(old plants), Julie de Loynes, Le Grenadier, Madame 
Aubis, Madame Desprez, Madame Lacliarme, Pierre de 
St. Cyr. 
China Roses. —If China Roses were sweet-scented, all 
the best sorts of them now offered for sale would be 
grown in beds in every flower-garden where room could 
be found; and as it is, of all Roses they are the best 
fitted for our present style of flower-gardening. For 
bedding-out they, too, are much better on their own 
roots, and the best soil for them is a light, rich loam ; 
it cannot be too rich if the situation is naturally dry at 
bottom. About the middle of April is the best time to 
prune them, and all the weak and middle-sized growths 
should be cut down close to the ground; the stronger 
shoots may he left from six to eighteen inches high, 
according to their size and strength. For the first two 
or three years after planting, the best way is to cut every 
one of the shoots close to the ground, in order to get strong 
bottoms all over the bed. In low, damp situations, and 
in very exposed places, the frost often injures them when 
they are young; moss, three or four inches thick, is the 
best thing to protect them, but ferns, coal-ashes, saw¬ 
dust, or evergreen boughs, will do. They will come 
from cuttings any time from March to October, but for 
a large stock, the best time is when the beds are pruned 
in the spring, as at that time one can get all the cuttings 
with heels to them by slipping off the pieces, instead of 
cutting under a joint in the more common way. Heeled 
cuttings of them require no glasses if they are put in a 
shady place, and they will root in any light sandy stuff’, 
j They ought to remain in the cutting-bed just twelve 
J months, on the supposition that they are made about 
the middle of April, therefore they should have plenty of 
. room, much more than is generally given to cuttings in 
I general. They also should be planted in regular rows, 
in order that they may be the more easily covered 
| between the rows to save them from frost. The Old 
' White China, of which 1 have often spoken, is by far the 
best of them all for a white bed; Clara Sylvain is the 
| next best white, and Madame Bureau the third best 
white. These three would make a bed, planted in the 
order I have them here, Madame on the outside, Clara 
next, and the old one in the centre. Mrs. Bosanquet is 
| a good bedder by itself, and is the next shade to a white. 
( Eugene Beauharnais would come in well behind it, and 
beyond that, Napoleon or Mielez ; these three or four 
would give a fine shade when they were all in bloom; 
but there is nothing more difficult than to get good 
i shaded beds ol Roses in any class, as every plant has 
I its own proper time ot giving the best tint, so that one 
is never sure of them, and that is the reason why I 
would plant Eugene Beauharnais between the lighter sorts. 
1 Cramoisie superieure, in a mass, and edged with Fabvier, 
would make a splendid bed, and another bed to match 
might be made out oi Gloire de Rosamene, edged with the 
common old sanguinea; this would be crossing the 
colours, Fabvier being a scarlet round a crimson, and 
sanguinea a crimson round a scarlet, as we may call the 
Rosamene, which, when used for beds, ought to be called a 
China Rose, instead of a Bourbon; but it is neither the 
one or the other when seen in full vigour as an edge. 
For filling up the bottom of a rose-wall, Gloire de Rosamene 
is the best of all Roses; and for making bouquets of 
Roses in bud from September to Christmas the Rosa¬ 
mene and Old White China are the best; for bouquets of 
full-blown China Roses, Clara Sylvain and Madame 
Brehon are the best; the latter is the best favoured 
Rose oi all the Chinas, and the best for a low wall. 
Fabvier and Henry the Fifth mixed together, and 
edged with the Crimson Fairy Rose, would make a beau¬ 
tiful low bed, and Fabvier, edged with the White Fairy 
Rose, would be quite a charm. These Fairy Roses, how¬ 
ever, will not last any time, unless they are taken up in 
the autumn and planted in cold frames; but they are so 
elegant in many ways about a choice flower-garden, that 
they deserve as much care as the best Verbenas. I once 
had all the walks in the rosary at Shrubland edged with 
the Crimson Fairy, but one sharp winter killed every 
one of them; there are several sorts, but the Crimson 
and White are the two best; they call them Miniature 
Roses now, and they were once called Lawrenciana, but 
Fairy is the best name to ask for. The following list, 
like that of the Bourbons, is only a choice from a larger 
choice:— Archduke Charles, Clara Sylvain, Cramoisie 
supei ieure, Eugene Beauharnais, Fabvier, Henry the Fifth, 
Madame Beaureau, Madame Brehon, Miellez, Mrs. Bo¬ 
sanquet, Napoleon, Prince Charles. 
Tea-Scented China Roses. —I well recollect the time 
when the first Tea-Scented Rose appeared in this coun¬ 
try, it was called Rosa odorata, and was a blush-white 
Rose; we used to bed it out, after propagating it, in 
August or September, like the Verbenas, and, like them, 
we had to keep it from the frost in the winter. The 
best plant of it I ever saw died last June; it must have 
been twenty years old, and taken great care of all the 
time by poor old Mr. Lovett, who was gardener to the 
late Sir W. Middleton for tliree-and-thirty years, and to 
the present baronet until he was pensioned off’with a 
cottage in the park, where he died, at a green old age, a 
few weeks after his favourito Rosa odorata ; it stood in 
an angle formed by a chimney stack, which projected 
from the gable of the cottage, having a south aspect, and 
a narrow-leaved myrtle stood at the opposite angle. I 
believe neither plant ever had any protection; but except 
in such favoured situations, I think the Tea Roses in 
general will do little good in this climate, unless they 
are taken as much care of in winter as the myrtles; and 
we shall never see them in perfection in England until 
cheap Rose-houses are devised for them; the glass to be 
j kept on from October to May, then to let them have the 
full benefit of our sun and air all the summer. It would 
be a good speculation to plant whole beds, or borders, 
with them, and thus covered, for cut flowers and bou¬ 
quets of them all the winter, in the neighbourhood of 
London and other large places. After the first cost, the 
expense would not be much; a few small coals and cin¬ 
ders to warm a common flue in very hard frost would be 
all. A low wall, or fence, however, such as I want for 
the Geraniums, is all that is needed to enable us to 
bloom them in summer as well as they do in France; 
and every word I write about the Geraniums for such a 
fence, is applicable for these Tea Roses. I know gar¬ 
deners who grow many of them in nine or ten-inch pots, 
in a very rich compost, for plunging out in the flower- 
garden from May to October, then take them up and 
winter them in cold frames, covered with wooden shut¬ 
ters and straw during very hard frost. When they arc 
left out all the winter, a west aspect is the best for them, 
it secures them from the easterly winds and the morning 
sun—two of the worst things which can reach them 
when they are frosted. 
I never saw a real white Tea-Rose yet; Niphetos and 
