An Old-World Corner 



In planting climbing Roses there is always a danger 

 of falling into the trap that so many amateurs succeed 

 in doing. Because Dorothy Perkins is a very beau- 

 tiful climber and, indeed, so are all the Wichuriana 

 class to which it belongs it is used a little too freely. 

 It should be remembered that this particular class 

 flowers very late, and that its actual period of full 

 beauty is comparatively short. It is well, therefore, to 

 use Roses of other classes that flower later and earlier 

 in fair proportions. These can be found among the 

 free-growing Teas, hybrid Teas, Noisettes, Ramblers, 

 Polyanthas, etc., and there are so many of them that 

 to mention a few would be to do an injustice to the 

 remainder. In every garden there should be reserved 

 somewhere a space, perhaps only an odd corner, for a 

 few of those freer-growing classes that are very beau- 

 tiful, but, on account of their rampant growth, are too 

 overpowering in any set scheme. Such are the 

 Japanese Rosa Rugosa, the Austrian Briers, and the 

 hybrids thereof ; the old world Moss, Provence, 

 Damask roses, some of which could have been found 

 in the gardens of England any time during the last 

 three hundred years or more. This old-world corner 

 will always be interesting, with its Cabbage Rose, a 

 sixteenth-century memory, White Provence, which 

 dates from 1777, and York and Lancaster, which, with 

 its white and red flowers, will carry back the memory 

 to the turmoil of the fifteenth century. 



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