58 ROSES FOR ENGLISH GARDENS 



cannot be tolerated, and a close watch has to be kept 

 on the plants, and the older growths have to be cut 

 right away at least every two years. How these free 

 Roses will grow over and decorate the porch and 

 walls of a small house of no architectural pretension 

 may be seen from the illustration. It is just these 

 houses that best lend themselves to the use of the 

 climbing Roses, indeed many that are absolutely ugly, 

 or worse than plainly ugly — debased by fictitious 

 so-called ornament of the worst class — may be re- 

 deemed and even made beautiful by these bountiful 

 and lovely Cluster Roses. 



A modest dwelling that has no special beauty or 

 character may by a clever use of climbing Roses be 

 converted into a delightful object. No one could pass 

 the roadside cottage shown in the illustration without 

 a thrill of admiration for the free-growing cluster Rose 

 that covers the walls and wreaths the front of the 

 porch. 



The little house itself has lost much of its true 

 character from the evident alteration of the windows, 

 which would originally have been either lead lights 

 and casements, or, if sash windows, would have had 

 the panes smaller, with rather thick sash-bars. The 

 large panes destroy the proportion and make the 

 house look too small for them. Some ugly flat frames 

 to all the windows, and pediment-shaped additions to 

 the tops of the lower ones, do much to destroy and 

 vulgarise the effect of what must have been a little 

 building with the modest charm of perfect simplicity. 

 The lead-roofed porch is right, and so is the open 



