150 EVERSLEY GARDENS 



Cherokee or Bramble-leaved from North 

 America, Wichuraiana from Japan, Sinica 

 from Tartary, Brunonis from the Hima- 

 layas, or the last new Hybrid at the Temple 

 Show, all are thrice welcome wherever wall, 

 bank, fence, arch, pillar, dead or living tree 

 can be found for them ; or a space on the 

 lawn to plant Pink Roamer, or the Lion, 

 or a dozen others equally free-growing and 

 beautiful, to spread into a huge mass at 

 their own sweet wills. 



In my own garden by the middle of June 

 the whole west wall of the house is a sheet 

 of blossom. First among the Roses, the lovely 

 and fragrant old Noisette, Jaune Desprez, 

 which used to cover one bay of the Rectory, 

 has in these few years spread over a space 

 1 8 by 20 feet and more, with its light green, 

 graceful foliage and great clusters of sweet- 

 scented flowers, bearing as many as seventy 

 blossoms sometimes at the end of one shoot. 

 On one side Gloire de Dijon in equal beauty 

 mingles with it round my window, joining 

 hands below with the vivid scarlet of Gruss 



