56 A BOOK ABOUT ROSES. 



dies. A Rose under trees can no more flourish 

 than a deer can get a good " head " who never 

 leaves the forest for the moor. 



These regicides were none the less correctly 

 told — both those who kill by suffocation and 

 those who starve our Queen to death — that the 

 Rose must have a free circulation of air, and like- 

 wise repose and rest. The directions may seem to 

 be incongruous, but they can be, and must be, fol- 

 lowed. The Rosarium must be both exposed and 

 sheltered; a place both of sunshine and of shade. 

 The centre must be clear and open, around it the 

 protecting screen. It must be a fold wherein the 

 sun shines warmly on the sheep, and the wind is 

 tempered to the shorn lamb ; a haven in which 

 the soft breeze flutters the sails, but over which 

 the tempest roars, and against whose piers the 

 billow hurls itself, in vain. 



And this may, I think, be taken consequently 

 as a golden rule in the formation of a Rose-gar- 

 den : so arrange it that a large proportion of your 

 trees may have the sunshine on them from its rise 

 to the meridian, and after that time be in shadow 

 and in repose. To eftect this, the garden must 

 extend in longitude from north to south rather 

 than from east to west — the form being oblong or 

 semicircular. The western \vail or fence should 



