THE NEW ROSE GARDEN. 119 



Roses were, we have now a far nobler race of climbing Teas which, 

 in addition to the highest beauty, have the great quality of flowering, 

 like Bouquet d'Or, throughout the fine summer and late into the 

 autumn. Of these there are various climbing Roses that open well 

 on walls, and give meadows of beauty, the like of which no other 

 plant whatever gives in our country. 



The outcome of it all is that the Rose must go back to the flower 

 garden its true place, not only for its own sake, but to save the 

 garden from ugliness, and give it fragrance and beauty of leaf and 

 flower. The idea that we cannot have prolonged bloom from Roses 

 is not true, because the finer Monthly and Tea Roses flower longer 

 than any half-hardy plants, even without the advantage of fresh soil 

 every year which such plants enjoy. I have Roses growing in 

 the same places for many years, which bloom in autumn, and even 

 into winter. And they must come back not only in beds, but in the 

 old ways over bower and trellis, and as bushes where they are hardy 

 enough to stand our winters, so as to break up flat surfaces and 

 give us light and shade where all is usually so level and hard. 

 But the Rose must not come back in ugly ways, in Roses stuck 

 and mostly starving on the tops of sticks or standards, or set in 

 raw beds of manure and pruned hard and set thin so as to develop 

 large blooms ; but, as the bloom is beautiful in all stages and sizes, 

 Roses should be seen closely massed, feathering to the ground, the 

 queen of the flower garden in all ways. 



A taking novelty at first, few things have had a worse influence 

 on the flower garden than the Standard Rose. Grown throughout 

 Europe and Britain by millions, it is seen usually 

 The Standard Rose, in a wretched state, and yet there is something 

 about it which prevents us seeing its bad effect 

 in the garden, and its evil influence on the cultivation of the Rose, 

 for we now and then see a fine and even a picturesque Standard, 

 when the Rose suits the stock it is grafted on, and the soil suits 

 each ; but this does not happen often. The term grafting is used 

 here to describe any modes of growing a Rose on any stock or kind, 

 as the English use of the term budding as distinct from grafting 

 is needless, budding being only one of the many forms of grafting. 



Of the evil effect of the Standard Rose any one may judge in 

 the suburbs of every town, but its other defects are not so clear to 

 all, such as the exposure high in the air to winter's cold of varieties 

 more or less delicate. On the tops of their ugly stick supports 

 they perish by thousands even in nurseries in the south of England. 

 If these same varieties were on their own roots, even if the severest 

 winter killed the shoots, the root would be quite safe, and the shoots 

 come up again as fresh as ever; so that the frost would only 



