. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1916, . lization of first hopes instillsthat enthusiasm which is the great essential of the future. The proper rosesmust be secured to start with. There were two determining influences in theselection of my own first roses, my rose-growing neighbor who advised the plant- 1916 HOKTICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 43 ing of Richmond and the local nurfedryman who made the statement that HybridPerpetuals only should be attempted by the amateur for outside planting asTeas and Hybrid Teas were too delicate for this climate. To Richmond, oncemy most teloved rose, do I tender
. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1916, . lization of first hopes instillsthat enthusiasm which is the great essential of the future. The proper rosesmust be secured to start with. There were two determining influences in theselection of my own first roses, my rose-growing neighbor who advised the plant- 1916 HOKTICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 43 ing of Richmond and the local nurfedryman who made the statement that HybridPerpetuals only should be attempted by the amateur for outside planting asTeas and Hybrid Teas were too delicate for this climate. To Richmond, oncemy most teloved rose, do I tender my thanks for an enthusiasm which cannever possibly be quenched. Richmond bloomed that first year many many times with no apparent ex-haustion, and I well remember after an absence from the garden of several dayshow I found a most perfect scarlet bloom, in the waning days of November,encased in a sheathing of ice. The lack of bloom on my Hybrid Perpetuals thatfirst year was a disappointment, and that winter when the first real rose list was. Photo, by F. T. Garden, Central Experimental Farm. Ottawa. evolved the blooming quality of the Hybrid Teas were predominant in my selec-tion. I am afraid that had I gained my first impressions of rose gardening withtlie Hybrid Perpetuals I had bought I would have agreed with the prevailinggeneral opinion that the rose garden was quite beyond the ordinary amateurgardener. However, by the continual harassing of my rose growing acquaintances, bydelving into many rose books written by authoritative authors, and by constantlyporing over some English gardening magazines (I was generally considered *anuisance at this period as the books appeared everywhere in the house) I eventuallycompiled a further list including about a hundred varieties which w^ere almostfrom universal opinion considered to be the best for garden growing. From myassociation with these during the last few seasons I can say that their suitabilityfor English gardens is
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