THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



we labour. The difference in soil values is very great, and a vital 

 question for those who expect to get good results in flowers or fruit, 

 and the worst of it is that on many poor soils no money or no 

 manurial or any other additions can ever make them as good as a 

 naturally good soil. 



So here, on a good soil, we have a beautiful garden showing how 

 Roses love the soil and air, especially the Tea and Monthly Roses, 

 which have the precious quality of coming out again with ever so little 

 encouragement — an hour or two of sun, or even without this in gentle 

 rains. It may be noticed in the engraving that the border below the 

 house at the bottom of a terraced-lawn is planted with Tea Roses of 

 the best sorts, so that it comes into the garden-picture, and is con- 

 venient for cutting or seeing the flowers, and not thrust away into 

 a separate corner out of the flower garden as Roses so often are. 

 And well the Tea Roses repay for the good place, from the ever- 

 constant Princess de Sagan to the rain-and-storm proof G. Nabonnand. 

 To these ever-welcome Roses, as good for the house as the open 

 garden, the best of the wild Roses are a great aid, all the more so 

 when we come to the adornment of walls, pergola, or the house-walls, 

 and here in August the Macartney, Prairie, and Japanese creeping 

 Rose (Wichuriana) come in so well after the early wild Roses are 

 past. Drooping from a pergola the Japanese creeping Rose is 

 graceful in the toss of its branches and the purity of its flowers. And 

 these late wild Roses go so well with the Clematis, Vine, Passion- 

 flower, Jasmine, and the best climbers we have for house-walls, the 

 good use of which does so much to grace the house. 



And as we have seen that in this garden near the house the garden 

 Rose occupies its true place (although a modest one compared with 

 what it deserves), here, round the water-lilies the wild Roses are 

 grouped. Now that the taste for these beautiful wild Roses from 

 various countries is reviving, it is well to know what should be done 

 with them. Their season is too short to entitle them to a place in 

 the flower garden and a very good one is the margin of pools and 

 small lakes which are now very rightly given up to precious water- 

 lilies. The Roses for the flower garden are the long blooming Tea 

 and Monthly Roses, which reward us by months of changeful flower. 



The wild Rose is much better placed in the more picturesque parts 

 of grounds where we neither expect nor look for continuous bloom, 

 and all the more so because these wild Roses are hardy shrubs that 

 want no attention for years at a time. 



