Roses in Thuya, and such kinds as Garland, Felicit6 Perpetu6, Flora, 



the Wild Dawson's Pink, will make fountains of Roses over almost 



Garden and anything. The sketch of Rose Euphrosyne with white 



Churchvard Foxgloves shows how charmingly they can be used to form a 



tangle of beauty in the wild garden. 



A Rose alley is a delightful sight ; one in an Algerian 

 garden always remains in my remembrance a winding avenue 

 of Eucalyptus, and on either side tumbling masses of a semi- 

 double blush Rose with a bright pink centre. Hybrids of Rosa 

 multtflora and Wichurlana, or the Ayrshire Roses, could well 

 be used in this way. If a good square hole were cut in the 

 grass when they were first planted, and the soil properly made, 

 they would need very little attention for years. On soil that 

 looked like pure gravel I have seen Reine Olga de Wurtemburg 

 growing in the form of a huge umbrella, flowering all over on 

 strong shoots, so that the Roses could be picked with stalks 

 nearly two feet long. Close by Marie Van Houtte was ten 

 feet high, and Madame Lambard had grown into a tree right 

 in the wood. In this particular garden the Roses are chosen for 

 strength as much as beauty, and very little pruning is allowed 

 of either Teas or climbers. 



Above all Roses should be planted in our churchyards, the 

 more rampantly growing kinds to form groups of lovely flower 

 between the graves or against the walls, and the low growers 

 at the base of the old grey tombstones so often uncared for 

 and only half erect. The Wichurianas, which creep almost like 

 Ivy, or Roses good for pegging down such as Una a large 

 single white or Gloire Lyonnaise, which throws up perfect 

 white flowers the whole length of its six-foot shoots, are among 

 the best for this purpose. 

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