THE SUMMER GARDEN BEAUTIFUL. 



CHAPTER XIII. 



THE NEW ROSE GARDEN. 



THERE is great loss to the flower garden from the usual way of 

 growing the Rose as a thing apart, and its absence at present from 

 many flower gardens. It is surprising to see how poor and hard 

 many places are to which the beauty of the Rose might add delight, 

 and the only compensation for all this blank is what is called the 

 rosery, which in large places is often an ugly thing with plants 

 that usually only blossom for a few weeks in summer. This idea 

 of the Rose garden arose when we had a much smaller number of 

 Roses, and a greater number of these were kinds that flowered in 

 summer mainly. 



The nomenclature, too, in use among Rose-growers by which 

 Roses that flower the shortest time were given the name of Hybrid 

 Perpetuals has had something to do with the absence of the Rose 

 from the flower garden. Shows, too, have had a bad effect on the 

 Rose in the garden, where it is many times more important than as 

 a show flower. The whole aim of the man who showed Roses was 

 to get a certain number of large blooms grown on the Dog Rose, 

 Manetti, or any stock which enabled him to get this at the least 

 cost. If we go to any Rose-showing friend, we shall probably find 

 his plants for show grown in the kitchen garden with a mass of 

 manure on the surface of the beds. 



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