Glowing Reflections 



and colour, such an extended period of blooming, such 

 adaptable habits of growth that there can be found, 

 sorts that will climb over a house and cover the roof 

 with flower, or provide a neat and glowing edging to a 

 border, and achieve almost everything the garden 

 requires in between these two extremes ? It is because 

 they are sufficient in themselves for most garden pur- 

 poses that they have appropriated a place in the Eng- 

 lish garden that is held by no other flower. 



Whether it be in the form of pleasant shady walks 

 arched over as 



" A garden bowered close, with plaited alleys of the trailing 

 Rose," 



or the wilder free-growing masses of the same varieties 

 used to clothe an ugly building, tumbling in glorious 

 profusion of bloom over a bank too steep for grass even 

 to grow thereon, by the side of a road, or perchance 

 overhanging and casting their glowing reflections into 

 the water, or whether in the more conventional and 

 | formal arrangement of the Rose garden, it is still the 

 flower of the garden. 



In the little garden, however, the restriction of space 

 renders it impossible to indulge in the riot of luxurious 

 growth and colour that is so attractive in Roses planted 

 in free and informal masses in a semi-wild condition. 

 As a matter of fact, it is not all varieties that are suit- 

 able for this method of culture, and for the little garden 

 the more orderly arrangement of formal beds is not only 

 preferable but imperative. This does not mean that 

 an elaborate and intricate system, of geometrical pat- 

 terns must be worked out in the form of beds, and filled 



