From Gardening Illustrated, December 26, 1908, p. 613-4:

SOME GOOD ROSES FOR AUTUMN.

How well Farbenkonigin shows up in the October days, when every rich-coloured flower seems doubly welcome! The glowing crimson-pink blossoms, shaded with a clear, paler pink, are so exquisitely formed as to almost justify the word “perfect” when applied to its shape. It is a free-blooming sort, the buds coming of almost a pure red colour, which lends quite a rich appearance when planted in the mass. It is a Rose well suited for massing where colour effect is the object- in fact, we obtain both colour and good quality of blossom from such a variety as this. The raiser, Herr Hinner, says it is of La France origin. Certainly the flower resembles this old Rose in many respects, especially in fragrance, although this is not so powerful as in La France. Like Farbenkonigin,

La France is especially good in autumn, and it would seem to suggest that where we sometimes fail in its culture is in pruning too hard. The blossoms that come in the autumn from the current year's wood are certainly superior to those earlier produced. What a delightful sport it has given us in

Augustine Guinoisseau, a blush white flower of rare loveliness just now. In the autumn there are two or three dozen Roses that stand out prominently for their glorious display, and some of the recent introductions well maintain the good opinion formed of them. There has been a tendency to rather deprecate that fine Rose

Betty. It is true it is very thin; but in October surely there is nothing like its beautiful elongated buds that are of such a warm apricot-pink in this stage. What I like about the Rose is its splendid vigour. It is equal in this respect to Mme. Abel Chatenay.

Pharisaer has made so many friends that I quite expect it will rank very high in any future analysis of garden Roses. It is unequalled in beauty of bud, and the autumn days just suit its fine, large petals.

Earl of Warwick, a Rose of sterling quality, is one of the largest of the Hybrid Teas, the huge, globular blossoms, with their lovely salmon-coloured tints, making a grand display on the rigid stems.

Gustave Grunerwald must find a place in the very smallest collection. It is one of the sweetest, and certainly one of the most distinct. There is a peculiar brilliancy about its carmine-rose blossoms, and although they are somewhat thin, they are of such splendid build and so large in the petal that most of the flowers seem good enough for the exhibition-box. Of course, they would not stand the trial of a hot summer-day, but in the October days we can appreciate its merits. I have alluded quite recently to

G. Nabonnand.—It will be difficult to surpass this Rose as a garden variety, and its lemon-white sport, Peace, stands out prominently. Both varieties are exquisitely formed, and produce their fine clusters on erect stems. The advantage of hard prun.ing is manifest. Grown as sparsely-pruned bushes, these Roses are very fine, but we do not obtain these basal growths in such perfection unless the plants are well cut back in spring. Someone recently described

Mme. Abel Chatenay as the Queen of Roses, and it surely deserves this honour. Whatever novelties appear, none can eclipse this beautiful variety, and it is alike good in summer as in autumn. It must be grown very extensively as a market Rose, for one meets with it on every hand. In the autumn on one of the strong growths I counted as many as thirty-three buds, the centre one fully developed, and the others in various stages of development. There is a Rose that much resembles Mme. Abel Chatenay. It is named Ferdinand Jamin. The flower is deeper and the colour somewhat richer in the centre. It is a very good Rose.

Mme. Ravary still leads as the best all round yellow Rose for the garden. Although Le Progress is rather more golden in colour, it does not possess the vigour of Mme. Ravary. The beautiful buds and half-open flowers are of a wonderful rich colour, but the expanded flowers pale to nearly white, which detracts from its beauty when seen in the mass. The best plan is to remove such flowers each day. There has recently appeared a very good yellow Rose, named

Mme. Paul Varin-Bernier, that bids fair to become a useful sort. It has much the same shade of colour as Mme. Ravary- perhaps more inclined to yellow, but with a growth resembling Richmond and Mme. Pernet Ducher. A splendid glow is given to the autumn beds by a group of

Ecarlate. It will possibly supersede Marquise de Salisbury for effect. Its colour is more dazzling, and the blooms are very freely produced, although of only medium size and rather thin. In this variety and

Charlotte Klemm we have had added to our Roses two very brilliant kinds that will be in much demand. The latter is a China or Monthly Rose, but could well be grouped with the Hybrid Teas, for its blossoms are of quite a large size. In summer the colour is very dazzling, and in autumn there is nothing more brilliant, unless it be Gruss an Teplitz. This good sort is handicapped by its excessive vigour, but there are numberless ways it can be employed in the garden. Planted in a bold group well away from other Roses, with a background of Conifers, what a noble effect is produced! Grown as standards, with undergrowths of scarlet or white Roses, it is splendid, and fills the air with its delightful fragrance.

Liberty is still one of our best crimson Roses. It will hold its own against Richmond, although the latter is so sweet, and certainly more vigorous. Then what a delightful reddish Rose we have in

Lady Battersea. —When well established this Rose is quite different from what one sees on one-year-old plants. The colour then is so rich and bright, the petals quite firm. The selection of the best autumnal Roses would not be complete without mentioning

Corallina, which in autumn is excellent. Then the great, loose blooms give a grand show, and the colour, a sort of lobster-red, is most effective on the tall-growing bushes. Pink Roses will, perhaps, never have any thing better added to their number than

Caroline Testout. It is such a good all round sort, with a lusty vigour that defies even the city smoke. Its two beautiful sports or seedlings, Marie Croibier and Gabrielle Pierrette, are also fine in the autumn. The colour of both is a much deeper pink, approaching more to the tint of Mrs. W. J. Grant, but the growth of the parent sort is maintained. The white sport,

Admiral Dewey, is, perhaps, the best of the blush-whites in autumn, unless we except Augustine Guinoisseau.

Frau Karl Druschki flowers well in autumn, especially upon standards, but the heavy fogs mar the snowy purity of its blossoms, yet there is nothing to equal it among white Roses for outdoor culture.

Among other good autumn-blooming Roses are Paul Ledé, Joseph Hill, Sulphurea, Mme. Leon Pain, Lady Ashtown, Konigin Carola, Mme. Jules Grolez, Prince de Bulgarie, Princesse de Sagan, Mme. Hoste, Mme. Antoine Mari, and, of course, most of the China and Polyantha Roses, not forgetting that useful sort, Armosa.

—Rosa.