Roses for English gardens . with bold upright flowers, have at once raised it tohigh favour. It looks as if it were a cross betweenCaptain Christy and some old Tea like Rubens, andis better than either. Mme. Cadeau Ramey is avery sweet and lovely garden Rose, but has not asyet at all the same vogue, being of the Devoniensistype. The China Roses and Hybrid Chinas do not findfavour here, they are too fleeting and too thin, andTea Roses give us more beauty. For instance, BeauteInconstante, a Tea, has not only even more brilliantorange-scarlet tones than any hybrid China, butit is so free and hard
Roses for English gardens . with bold upright flowers, have at once raised it tohigh favour. It looks as if it were a cross betweenCaptain Christy and some old Tea like Rubens, andis better than either. Mme. Cadeau Ramey is avery sweet and lovely garden Rose, but has not asyet at all the same vogue, being of the Devoniensistype. The China Roses and Hybrid Chinas do not findfavour here, they are too fleeting and too thin, andTea Roses give us more beauty. For instance, BeauteInconstante, a Tea, has not only even more brilliantorange-scarlet tones than any hybrid China, butit is so free and hardy, as well as solid in petal,that it puts to shame its cousins that are so welcomein northern gardens. 88 ROSES FOR ENGLISH GARDENS Cramoisi Superieur is lovely as a dwarf hedge,but is not nearly so good a winter bloomer as theclimbing form Cramoisi Grimpant; so it is in hedge-rows and avenues that the glowing masses of thisare seen in company with the pale pink Indica Major,which here takes the place of the Hawthorn PART II PLANTING, PRUNING, AND PROPAGATING ROSES; EXHIBITING, GROWING UNDER GLASS, ETC. By EDWARD MAWLEY
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