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rich Schultheis, Helen Keller, Mrs. John 
Laing, Marquis de Castellane. 
Reds: Alfred Colomb, Captain Hay- 
ward, Duchess of Bedford, Dupuy Jamain, 
Etienne Levet, Duke of Fife, Gustave 
Piganeau, Madame Marie Rady, Ulrich 
Brunner, Susanne Marie Rodocanachi, 
Comtesse d’Oxford, Victor Verdier. 
Dark Crimson: Charles Lefebvre, Fisher 
Holmes, Louis Van Houtte,. Prince 
Arthur, Abel Carriere, Baron de Bonstet- 
ten, Sir Roland Hill, Xavier Olibo, A. K. 
Williams. 
Tea Roses: Anna Ollivier, Bridesmaid, 
Catherine Mermet, Comtesse de Nadaillac, 
Enchantress, Francisca Kruger, G. Nabon- 
nand, Hon. Edith Gifford, Innocente 
Pirola, Madame Chedane Guinoisseau, 
Madame Cusin, Madame Hoste, Madame 
Lambard, Maman Cochet, White Maman 
Cochet (this is an improvement on tue 
parent in every way), Marie Van Houtte, 
Muriel Grahame, The Bride. 
Hybrid Teas: Mrs. W. J. Grant, Cannes 
la Coquette, Caroline Testout, La France, 
Augustine Guinnoisseau, Captain Christy, 
Charlotte Gillemot, Clara Watson, Coun- 
tess of Caledon, Grace Darling, Duchess of 
Albany, Danmark, Kaiserin Augusta Vic- 
toria, Marjorie, Marquis Litta, Viscount 
Folkestone. 
If one class of Roses is better than an- 
other it is the Hybrid Teas. Most of them 
have the vigor and hardiness of Hybrid 
Perpetuals, with the refinement of the 
Teas.—‘‘Amateur Gardening.” 
PEO Si SSeo Shr 
Rose Arches. 
The arches should be from 7 feet to 8 
feet high. We have no fancy for the 
wirework arrangements usually erected, 
but would prefer an arch of stout iron 
about the thickness of gas piping. The 
arches may be made to span the path ac- 
cording to width of latter. You must 
trench the ground deeply and add some 
good farmyard-manure, but see that this 
be not brought into close contact with the 
reots when planting. Some of the best 
Reses for arches are summer-blooming 
only, but you could plant one of these 
and an autumnal bloomer against each 
arch, so that you obtain blossom late as 
weli as early. We give you the names 
of eight of each. Summer Bloomers.— 
Red: Crimson Rambler, Amadis. Pink: 
Flora, Queen Alexandra. Yellow : 
Electra, Claire Jacquier. White: Feli- 
cite-Perpetue, Bennet’s Seedling. Av- 
tumnals.—Red: Reine Marie Henriette, 
Lengworth Rambler. Pink: Mme. Marie 
Lavallee, Climbing Captain Christy. 
Yellow: Gloire de Dijon, Mme. Berard. 
White: Mme. Alfred Carriere, Aimee 
Vibert. There is a climbing Moss Rose 
named Cumberland Belle which would do 
well for a pink summer-blooming variety. 
Many of the fast-growing Roses are in- 
clined to bareness at the base. We 
THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER, 
DecEMBER 1, 1962. 
should advise you to unfasten one or two 
of the main growths and renail them to 
the wall in a zig-zag fashion. By so 
doing you encourage basal eyes to start 
inte growth, and in a year or two there 
should be several young growths. . Another 
plan is to cut down to the ground one of 
the oldest growths each. year, but where 
there are only one or two such growths, 
then the former method is best. There 
shculd be no difficulty in securing a 
bushy base to Felicite Perpetue if you 
adopt one of the methods described above. 
The long growths at the top should be 
iu autumn, and, like its sport, ride of 
Waltham, the very large flowers show up 
we-. on the plant. The color of Countess 
of Oxford is bright carmine-red, a glowing 
tint, free from all suspicion of magenta or 
purple. The foliage is very showy, and 
in the wood the variety is very distinct, 
a3 not a thorn is to be seen. It can be 
propagated readily from cuttings, but the 
finest blooms are cut from plants on the 
secdling Brier. It is a pity such a gor- 
gecus Rose has no fragrance, but it shares 
with the majority of the Victor Verdier 
race this distinction.—Rosa. 
White Maman Cochet. 
(Cook 1897.) 
A sport. from Maman Cochet, which it closely 
resembles in form, habit of growth, and its generally good qualities. 
Colour, creamy white; in spring the outer petals frequently tinged with 
rose. 
Large, full, with pointed centre, a typical exhibition flower, and 
since its introduction has appeared in almost every prize collection of its 
class in both England and Australia. 
every garden. 
thinned out, shortening such of the others 
as are retained and that are extra long. 
By leaving them as long as is practicable 
the bush growths will be considerably as- 
sisted. 
Yellow climing Roses for Pillar: Five . 
' good kinds would be—Duchess d’Auer- 
steedt, Billiard and Barre, Belle Lyon- 
naise, Mme. Moreau, and Reve d’Or. 
The variety Souvenir de Mme. Eugene 
Verdier is a Hybrid Tea of dwarf growth. 
Mme. Eugene Verdier is a charming Tea 
Rose, rich orange and yellow in color, but 
scarcely strong enough for a 6-ft. pillar. 
Rose Countess of Oxford: This Hybrid 
Perpetual is never seen better than it is 
A perfect gem, and should be in 
A Rose Hedge. 
By Frank Cant, in “The Gardeners’ 
Magazine.” 
One cannot but admire the Wild Dog 
Rose, throwing its wreaths of blossom well 
above the hedgerow on which it depends 
for support, but just for one moment 
imagine the beauty of a whole hedge of 
wild roses (Rosa canina) supporting their 
own wreaths of thousands of blushing blos- 
soms, and defying the elements. Neither 
frost, early or late, nor wind, nor rain, nor 
anything else can arrest their determina- 
