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A Rose Garden Planting Scheme 



R. H. BATH, LTD. 



The Nurseries of R. H. Bath, Ltd., have for 

 many years been famous the world over for the splen- 

 did strain of Empress Pansies, which is unrivalled for 

 the size, brilliance and great variety of colours which 

 it contains. The visit of two of the best-known raisers 

 of new Roses in America to the floral farms to see 

 the Roses, and who, on looking round the flowers 

 generally, saw the Empress Pansies in full flower, ex- 

 pressed their opinion that nothing equal to them was 

 to be found in either Europe or America. 



The soil that grows Pansies to such perfection is 

 equally good for the cultivation of Roses. The land 

 has all been reclaimed from the Wash, and consists 

 of a rich alluvial loam of great depth. In this soil all 

 plants make very free root growth, and Roses in par- 

 ticular make a wonderful mass of fibrous root. It is 

 also a notable factor that, growing as they do in the 

 Easterly part of England fully exposed in the open 

 flat country, they are exceedingly hardy, and trans- 

 plant well to any district Visitors to the Xurseries 

 will always find during the spring and summer months 

 a wide range of flowers to interest them, and not 

 least the 100,000 to 150,000 Roses. Specimens of all 

 the Popular Climbing and Pillar Roses may be seen 

 properly trained and in full bloom. 



The choice of Roses for filling the beds as per 

 plans shown may be varied considerably. If a definite 

 colour scheme is preferred, fewer varieties should be 

 used, and the beds in each of the four divisions of 

 the centre confined to one colour. Such scliemes are 

 generally much more effective than planting a variety 

 of colours. The small inner beds nearest the centre 

 might be planted with dwarf poly poms, and the 

 outer beds with larger flowered varieties of the same 

 shade. As an example, Katherine Zeimet and Frau 



