ROSE GARDENS. 9 
In any case, the author’s position is plain enough. He is 
millionaire and clerk by turns. In the former capacity he will 
po out a complete Rose Garden; in the latter he will scheme 
how to work in as many Roses among his other plants as space 
will allow. 
He will include in his purview the following types of 
Roses :— 
. The Standard Rose. 
. The Dwarf Rose. 
The Wall or Climbing Rose, 
The Weeping Rose. 
. The Pegged-down Rose. 
The Pot Rose. 
The Arch or Arbour Rose. 
. The Exhibition Rose. 
He will prove that each (and all if wished) can be grown in 
the ordinary garden; and he will show how the various forms 
may be blended together in one harmonious whole—the Rose 
Garden proper. 7 
There would be incompleteness in the purview were soils 
and manures, planting and pruning, propagating and training, 
otting and showing, varieties and enemies, excluded from it. 
These also, therefore, must have their share of attention. 
In short, the sculpture of our goddess is going to be com- 
plete. We are not going to leave her, like the Venus of Milo 
which we go into ecstasies over in the Louvre, armless. Nor is 
she going to be, like the Queen of Spain, without legs! 
OD ST OT 09 tO ps 
Chapter 3.—About Rose Gardens. 
Tue Rose Garden of modern days is planned to give harbourage 
to Roses of varied forms. It is often a roomy place, well pro- 
tected by belts of shrubs or trees. Its walks are perhaps arched 
at the entrance, and converge upon a central space, wherein 
may be a bed, or a capacious water-basin, surrounded by a 
low wall, which offers an inviting seat in hot weather. 
There is, perhaps, a series of short pergolas, clad with Roses, 
near the centre. In their absence there are arches. 
There are pillars, or tree stems, up which Roses clamber. 
_ There are beds, and groups of beds. The leading idea is to 
give up separate beds to each variety, so arranging them that 
the beds, as a whole, blend together 
