The Tea Roses are singularly delicate in their colouring, the blending of tints almost bidding defiance to a proper description, and their peculiar and pleasant fragrance is agreeable to nearly every one. They are, however, tender as compared to other sorts, and, therefore, not suitable for outdoors in cold soils and climates, except against walls where they can be easily protected from frost, and where they ripen their wood, and bloom the best. We have marked H those that are hardiest. They make beautiful beds in warm soils and localities. In preparing beds for them, drainage should be particularly attended to, and the bed elevated above the surrounding level. During winter some evergreen boughs should be stuck in amongst them to afford them protection. Planted under glass, they are magnificent objects, and well deserve such a provision being made for them in large establishments. Pruning should always be deferred till after the frosts of spring are past.

Those marked B are most suitable for beds; and where

late flowers are an object, the Noisette Roses are very useful, as they keep on expanding their large clusters very late in the autumn. Some of them form fine Pillar Roses, such as Du Luxembourg and La Biche. They should not be so closely pruned as is recommended for the Bourbons and Chinese.

The sweetness and beauty of these summer Roses make them universal favourites. They require liberal treatment as to manure, or they will not grow and flower well. They are very hardy, and best propagated by layers. In pruning, they should be closely cut back to two or three buds. The more robust growers may be left somewhat longer. There are some dwarf-growing or miniature Provence varieties, of which Burgundy, De Meaux, and Spong are the best.

These are most exquisite summer blooming Roses. Like the Provence, they require a rich soil to cause them to develop their flowers and moss well. They require to be pruned in the same way as the Cabbage Rose. The common Moss is the sweetest.

Austrian or Yellow Rose.

Double Yellow,

Harrisonii,

Persian Yellow,

These are very hardy and favourite Roses, and form probably the most graceful standards of any, especially Harrisonii. They also make very beautiful beds pegged down while they last in bloom, which, however, is not very long. They require a rich dry soil to grow them well. In pruning them, it is only necessary to thin the growths out to prevent overcrowding, and those left should not be shortened beyond topping the longest, to form the plant into shape. Harrisonii requires even less pruning than the others, and it is probably the most desirable to grow, as it forms beautiful heads as standards, and is also the best for a bed when so grown.

The old double yellow, Rosæ sulphurea, is a beautiful rose, but very shy of blooming. I succeeded in blooming it regularly in Middlesex, planted against a wall, pruned it and trained exactly like a peach, but never topping it beyond the dead tops of the shoots. The shoots were kept closely nailed to the wall as they grew, and, managed thus, it flowered regularly; and a beautiful object is a perfect rose of this variety.

The foregoing lists comprise the Roses that are, generally speaking, most suitable for planting for producing effect in gardens. For beds, the Chinese give the most continual bloom, and the Bourbons are excellent for autumnal flowering. The Hybrid Perpetuals, though there is a pause in their flowering, are indispensable as summer and autumn Roses. There are many beautiful Roses included in the Damask and Gallica or French Rose sections; but as it is foreign to my object to treat of Roses except in the most popular and useful way, I pass them over, and will enumerate a few varieties which are most useful as wall and climbing Roses. Almost all Roses that are suitable for pillars are also suitable for walls, but there are some not generally used or suited for pillars that are, from their peculiarity of habit, strictly speaking, Wall Roses.

Climbing Roses suitable for covering walls, fences, arbours, arches, etc. :—

These are, from their hardy and free nature, suitable for covering walls or the north side of any object that it is desirable to cover. The Ayrshire, in particular, are quick growers, and for running over an object and

covering it rapidly, they are admirably adapted. They are not very particular as to soil, and thrive almost anywhere. The Boursault Roses should not be much cut back at pruning, but instead, the shoots should be well thinned out, and those left laid in nearly their whole length. The Ayrshires require very little care of any sort, beyond being thinned out a little and confined to the object they are designed to cover. They form beautiful weeping Roses, budded on tall stocks.

Evergreen or Sempervirens.

Adelaide D'Orléans, white.

Felicité Perpétuelle, flesh colour.

Myrianthes, peach.
Spectabilis.

These are suitable for the same purposes as the Ayrshire, and have the additional recommendation of being nearly evergreen, for they retain their foliage till far on into winter. In pruning them, they should be treated similar to the Boursault-the shoots thinned out, and those left not shortened back much. They make excellent pillar and weeping Roses. Those three sections are best adapted for cold localities, where such as the Banksian do not succeed. The autumnal flowering Roses, such as the hardiest of the Teas, the Noisettes, Hybrid Perpetuals, the Chinas, etc., also make excellent Wall Roses, but of course are not so well adapted for covering quickly as those climbing or running varieties.

The Banksian.

Alba grandiflora, white.
Jaune Serin, yellow.

White, white.

Old Yellow, yellow.

These are magnificent objects on a wall in early summer, when they produce their enormous profusion of flowers in clusters. They are, however, tender, and