THE NEW ROSE GARDEN. 



show, but afterwards it is all the other way ; the Rose fails on it 

 and Tea Roses do not. grow on it at all. It is quite distinct in 

 nature from them, and nurserymen who use the Manetti for Tea 

 Roses do no good to their own craft. People ordering Tea Roses 

 should be careful to order them never to be sent on Manetti stock. 

 Even if they do so they may be disappointed, as the large growers 

 have often to buy from others and so send out Tea Roses on the 

 Manetti stock, an absolutely sure way to prevent the Roses growing 

 or ever showing their beauty. 



In most gardens where people pay any attention to Roses the 

 ground in which they grow is in winter densely coated with manure, 

 often raw and ugly to see in a flower garden 

 Eoses and perhaps under the windows of the best rooms of 

 Manure. the house. This is the regulation way of cata- 

 logues and books, but it is needless and im- 

 possible in a beautiful Rose garden. Most of our garden Roses 

 are grafted on the Dog Rose of our hedgerows, which does best in the 

 heavy, cool .loams of the midlands, so that if we want the ordinary 

 grafted garden Rose to do well we must give it not less than 30 

 inches in depth of like soil. This is often of a rich nature, and it is 

 very easy to add in putting the soil in all the manure which the 

 Rose may want for some years, so that the surface of the bed might 

 be planted with light-rooting rock and like plants, one of the 

 prettiest ways being to surface it with Pansies and Violets. I have 

 beds of Tea Roses over which rock plants have been growing for 

 years without the Roses suffering. Beautiful groups of mossy plants 

 of all sorts, or little evergreen alpine plants associated with the 

 earliest flowers, showing that the surface of the Rose garden itself 

 might be a charming garden of another kind, and not a manure heap. 

 In the old way of having what is called a "rosery " it did not matter 

 so much about covering the surface with manure, but where we put 

 our Rose beds in the centre of the very choicest flower garden or 

 under the windows of the house it is a repulsive practice. The Rose 

 can be nourished for long years without adding any manure to 

 the surface. 



If we free our minds from the incubus of these wrong teachings 

 and practices, many beautiful things may be done with Roses for 

 garden adornment. What is wanted mainly is that the very finest 

 Roses, and above all long-blooming ones like Monthly Roses 

 and such Tea Roses as G. Nabonnand, Marie Van Houtte, and 

 Anna Olivier, should be brought into the flower garden in bold masses 

 and groups to give variety and prolonged bloom, using the choicest 

 Tea Roses in the flower beds, with wreaths of yellow climbing Roses 

 swinging in the air, and on walls, especially the climbing Tea Roses. 



