. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent;. Landscape gardening; Trees; Suburban homes. [from old catalog]. DECIDUOUS SHRUBS. 497 THE ROSE. Hosa. Fig. 161;.. Du Hamel observes that " Nature appears scarcely to have placed any limit between the different species of "the rose; and, if it is already very difficult to define the wild species, which have not yet been modified by culture, it is almost impossible to refer to their original type the numer- ous varieties which culture has made in the flowers of species already so nearly resembling each ; To the
. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent;. Landscape gardening; Trees; Suburban homes. [from old catalog]. DECIDUOUS SHRUBS. 497 THE ROSE. Hosa. Fig. 161;.. Du Hamel observes that " Nature appears scarcely to have placed any limit between the different species of "the rose; and, if it is already very difficult to define the wild species, which have not yet been modified by culture, it is almost impossible to refer to their original type the numer- ous varieties which culture has made in the flowers of species already so nearly resembling each ; To the ordinary amateur the great num- ber of divisions among cultivated roses into classes and sub-classes, by which professional florists en- deavor to facilitate a knowledge of the different sorts of roses, some- times serves rather to make the confusion worse confounded. The distinctions which seem simple enough, and quite necessary to professional florists, who have exam- ples of all sorts constantly before their eyes, is a bewildering mass of floral lore, quite embarrassing to the amateurs for whom one or two dozen of the best varieties of roses will do as well as a thousand. The author of a recent horticultural work, after enumer- ating we know not how many classes of roses, closes the chapter by condensing the results of his experience into a *' select list" of upwards of two hundred varieties! A generosity scarcely ex- ceeded by the nursery catalogues. A plan now adopted by many nurserymen, and recommended by Francis Parkman in his excellent treatise entitled "The Book of Roses," is to arrange roses in two great divisions, viz: the first division embracing all roses, whether hardy or tender, which bloom in June, and not afterwards; the second division embracing all which bloom more than once in a season. 32. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of
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