NEW GARDEN ROSES 7 



These pretty dwarf Cluster Roses are not nearly 

 enough used. They have an innocent, childlike 

 charm of their own, quite distinct from the more 

 grown - up attractiveness of their larger brethren — 

 one thinks of such a little bush as Paquerette as 

 in place in a child's garden or on a child's grave. 

 They have their uses, too, in the Rose garden, in any 

 small, dainty spaces, as at the foot of a platform on 

 which a sundial rests ; at some point where some 

 small beautiful thing could be seen on a level with 

 the eye ; in small beds by themselves, or as an 

 edging to Roses of slightly larger growth. 



The Himalayan free Roses have been mentioned 

 first because it is from them, and from imdtiflora 

 especially, that the most important of our newer 

 garden Roses of the rambling, cluster-blooming 

 kinds have been derived. But before coming to 

 some of the older garden Roses, mention must be 

 made of the Japanese R. wichuriana and its hybrids. 

 This species has introduced to our gardens Roses 

 of quite an unusual way of growth. They grow 

 fast and are of rambling habit, and though they 

 may be trained to pillar shape, their favourite way 

 is to trail upon the ground, downward as often 

 as not, and to ramble downhill over banks and 

 uneven ground ; so that in our gardens we may 

 now have quite a new aspect of Rose beauty. They 

 hybridise freely, and already we have many beauti- 

 ful flowers twice the size of the type, more free- 

 blooming, of various tender colourings and charming 

 fragrance. A well - devised cross with Perle des 



