Readers of Miss JekylPs delightful book, " Roses for July. 

 English Gardens," will remember many suggestive pictures for Carpet 

 the use of Roses in these and other ways. Plants for 



Teas, Hybrid Teas, and Hybrid Perpetuals, I have left till R O se Beds 

 the last, partly owing to the difficulty of picking and choosing 

 a few names out of the hundreds of beautiful kinds. The 

 sketch, made at Mr Robinson's at Gravetye, shows what a 

 Rose garden may be even in the third week of July, when the 

 first flush of Roses is really over. The strength of the Roses may 

 be attributed a great deal to their being mostly on their own roots. 

 The cuttings are made in September, and laid in sideways in 

 the open ground with a long piece buried. Many kinds will be 

 found to grow much more freely in this way, as the Briers 

 perish in many soils in which the Teas and Hybrids will grow well. 

 The beds are not devoted to Roses alone but are filled with many 

 low-growing plants : Violas white, mauve, yellow, and purple ; 

 Sedums ; annual white Alyssum, Rhodanthe, a pink annual 

 lovely with pink Roses ; Veronica, above all good with 

 white Roses ; Kaulfussia, Dwarf Campanulas, Phacelia, Dwarf 

 Lavender, Platstemon californica, Simpkin Pinks, Gilias, 

 Carnations and blue Lobelia, Cupid Sweet Peas, and numbers 

 of others. In our own soil we find it best to devote the beds to 

 Roses alone, using such plants as Anemones or Violas for borders ; 

 so close above the chalk the Roses need all the nourishment 

 they can get. With Violas we find it most important to get 

 the young plants, made from cuttings the preceding September, 

 planted out early in the year, so as to get them established 

 before drought or great heat. 



A list of the best kinds of Roses will be found in Miss 

 Kingsley's " Autumn " Article, as good Autumn Roses are also, as 



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