POM-POAI ROSES.
More than once I have sung the praises of the Poulsens, those most glorious of Polyantha roses, and incidentally of the small, more delicate and, because of its quaint salmon colour, more exclusive rose, Gloria Mundi. The whole tribe it seems, with the Poulsens in the forefront, is attracting the "attention of the systematists. The roses are so distinctive, have so advanced in number and popularity that a new name is sought for the class. How many varieties have come--- and gone ! Jessie had her vogue ; and the colour of her dainty flower was welcome ; but she took to fits of sulking." I had six bushes of which all but one refused to open their buds, which continued unchanged till they were frozen off in December. Orleans certainly should not be displaced, and if there are lavender bushes alongside, the old monthly rose is still in some eyes as good as any polyantha, even Else Poulson.
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