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A Rose Garden Planting Scheme 



MR. GEORGE BURCH 



It was in 1887 that Mr. George Burch first staged 

 Ihis own Roses for exhibition, and since that date he 

 has never looked back. For 33 years he has shown at 

 the National Rose Society's London Show, and has 

 been a most successful prize-winner. Awarded no 

 less than 1,550 prizes for Roses, including the gold 

 medal at the Franco-British Exhibition, London, 1908, 

 the highest award open to French and British growers. 

 Mr. Burch progressed until 1918, when he won tiie 

 Natonal Rose Society's Champion Challenge Trophy 

 for 48 Roses, distinct varieties. As a member of the 

 Council of the National Rose Society for 30 years, Mr. 

 George Burch has done much to promote the interests 

 of the Queen of Flowers in his nurseries at Peter- 

 borough. Most of the leading varieties are grown in 

 standards, dwarfs, climbers, and weeping standards. 



Mr. George Burch is a great believer in the plant- 

 ing of Roses in masses of colour, one variety to each 

 bed, so as to form a colour scheme, and the following 

 plan shows two gardens to scale, each constructed to 

 give a wonderful effect in simple design. 



The top garden shows a square lily pond in the 

 centre and four garden ornaments, one at each corner, 

 with gravel paths and beds set in turf. A circular 

 hedge of Sweet Briars sets off each corner, and if pink 

 Roses are desired, Amy Robsart, Catherine Seyton, 

 Edith Bellenden, and Julia Mannering should be 

 selected; if red, then Anne of Geerstein, Jeannie Deans, 

 Lucy Bertram, and Meg Merrilies may be chosen. All 

 standards to this plan should be of one height, and the 

 outside rows should be all red or all pink, the opposite 

 colour to that of the Sweet Briar selected ; the <;econd 

 row should be white or light pink, the opposite colour 

 to that selected for the outside rows. The stan l.trds 



