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CHAPTER XVIII. 



PLANS AND PLANTING SCHEMES. 



IVifA sweet Musk Roses and witJi Eglantine.'' 



— Shakespeare. 



That which is worth doing at all is worth doing 

 well, and throughout life this has ever been one of my 

 most valued mottoes. 



If you intend to grow Roses, and you have the 

 land, do the thing properly. Make a Rose garden, 

 and study to see how many trees you can plant, and 

 how great an effect you can secure from a clearly de- 

 fined space. I know of no cheaper form of gardening 

 than the growing of Roses. 



The majority of people are possessed -with the idea 

 that Rose-growing is a very expensive hobby, and for 

 this reason they have never attempted to grow in any 

 quantity this most beautiful of all flowers. Now, if 

 only the horticultural — and floricultural — loving public 

 would be perfectly fair, and consider carefully the profit 

 and loss of their gardens, weighing as profit the 

 amount of pleasure obtained from the cultivation of 

 certain flowers against the necessary expenditure in- 

 volved in the said cultivation — which we will term loss 

 — then they would be indeed surprised to find how well 

 within their means the Queen of Flowers really was, 

 and how very favourably she compared with, if she did 

 not even 'surpass, all other flowers, in the supplying the 

 greatest amount of pleasure and profit, coupled with 

 the smallest expenditure or loss. 



Few flowers there are that exist in a greater num- 

 ber of varieties than the Rose ; few with habits so 

 varied and so well adapted to make a garden beau- 



