74 THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



Africa, such as the Hairbell and others of the less 

 Clematis. These are so fragile in growth that many of them may 

 be trusted among groups of shrubs and throwing veils over the 

 bushes here and there. 



The old Climbers and Garland Roses were almost too vigorous for 



the garden, and their bloom did not last long enough to justify their 



getting a place there ; but now, with the great 



Climbing Roses, climbing Tea Roses we have for the southern 



parts of these islands, we may count on a bloom 



for months. We have in these Roses, where they thrive the best, 



the most precious of all ornaments for walls of houses, trellis 



work, pergolas. In southern parts of the country we even get fine 



results from these Roses on the north side of walls, where some 



Roses flower better than on the south side. Also, we can grow them 



in the open on trellises or away from walls, but in the northern parts 



of the country, where these great climbing Tea Roses may not thrive 



so well, walls come in to help us more and more by their shelter and 



warmth, and the encouragement they give to early bloom. 



Apart from these great Roses of garden origin, which will long be 

 among the most precious, some Wild Roses are of the highest 

 importance in warm districts and good soils, particularly the Indian 

 R. Brunonis and the many-flowered Roses (R. polyantha) of Japan 

 but in the presence of the need of so much wall space for the garden 

 Roses these Wild Roses will usually be best in the shrubbery or some 

 place apart, where they may be let alone, and no good can arise 

 from choice, garden ground being given to Roses like R. polyantha 

 which are even more vigorous than our own wild Dog Rose. 



In Europe perhaps the country that pleases one most by its 

 fitness for Rose culture is that along the shores of the Mediterranean, 

 where the Banksian and other more delicate Roses may be seen 

 up trees, forming hedges, and arranging themselves in other delight- 

 ful ways. I remember being very much struck with the beauty of the 

 single Banksian Rose in such positions, and often wondered why it 

 was not secured for our own gardens, even though it might not grow 

 so freely as there. 



Going back some thousands of years to the earliest sculptured 



remains of some of the oldest peoples, we see evidence that the 



Grape Vine was in common use, and it is, no doubt, 



Vines for their much older than the monuments of Assyria. 



beauty of form. Among the Kabyle villages of North Africa I 



passed many Vines of great age trailing over 



very old Olive trees in the little orchard fields. In such countries 



there was the value of the fruit, but even in ours, where the 



Grape ripens rarely out of doors, the charm of the plant is 



