. Rose gardening; how to manage roses and enjoy them . introduced—that is, made a fuss over at the greatshows, boomed in the Press, largely advertised—than thenumber of their varieties exceeded a hundred. There area vast number more now, yet some amateurs know themnot, or have grown them for years without knowing themto be Wichuraianas. Lady Gay and Dorothy Perkins, forexample, have flung their gorgeous boughs right and left forso many seasons that they are old favourites ; yet Wichur-aiana herself, single white, dainty, trailing or prodigiously climb-ing, as requested, is often examined, at s
. Rose gardening; how to manage roses and enjoy them . introduced—that is, made a fuss over at the greatshows, boomed in the Press, largely advertised—than thenumber of their varieties exceeded a hundred. There area vast number more now, yet some amateurs know themnot, or have grown them for years without knowing themto be Wichuraianas. Lady Gay and Dorothy Perkins, forexample, have flung their gorgeous boughs right and left forso many seasons that they are old favourites ; yet Wichur-aiana herself, single white, dainty, trailing or prodigiously climb-ing, as requested, is often examined, at shows, as somethingnovel. And are not the simple folk wiser than we after all ?Wichuraiana herself, the real thing, is still the real rarity,whereas the hundreds of popular varieties are but hybrids,owning her as one parent. We ought to call them HybridWichuraianas; yet how seldom do we find the prefix used ? 31 32 ROSE GARDENING The very title, in many cases, is spelt wrong, as Wichuriana;while, to do proper honour to the memory of Herr Wichura,. GiiriiCr>i,DiiiDujLOrj,,jcDtviu jr_jL.:j3ji^jcj(r:)Lr.;r-3crjc:iL -(C-k :j ; C ., » Jl. . . i. jy.,tjL:o^jC-^~ji jj^ -L- -?D^-;;ju,!..,:rn;i,.jL J ~;, ji . BO(^0Ei\ PAT/^ Poles for Climbing Roses, to Screen the Corner of a Border. the discoverer, in China, in i860, it must be given the extraa. Not till thirty years later did the ever-enterprising Americanstake up this rose and, by crossing it with others, introduced
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