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poet's dream, and shall satisfy the artist's eye, and 

 rejoice the gardener's heart, and give the restful 

 happiness and kindle the reverent wonderment of 

 delight, in such ways as should be the fulfilment of 

 its best purpose, has yet to be made. 



It matters not whether it is in the quite free 

 garden where Roses shall be in natural groups and 

 great flowery masses and arching fountains, and 

 where those of rambling growth on its outskirts 

 shall clamber into half-distant surrounding trees and 

 bushes, or whether it is in the garden of ordered 

 formality that befits a palatial building ; there are 

 the Roses for all these places, and for all these and 

 many other uses. Indeed, for reducing the hard 

 lines of the most formal gardens and for showing 

 them at their best, for such enjoyment as they may 

 give by the humanising of their rigid lines and the 

 softening of their original intention as a display of 

 pomp and state and the least sympathetic kind of 

 greatness, the beneficent quality of age and accom- 

 panying over-growth may be best shown by the 

 wreathing and clambering cluster Roses, whose 

 graceful growth and tender bloom are displayed all 

 the better for their association with the hard lines 

 and rough textures of masonry surfaces. 



SOME BEAUTIFUL WILD ROSES 



No family of hardy shrubs is more bewildering 

 in the multiplicity and intricacy of its nomencla- 

 ture than Rosa. Although there are many species 

 now accepted by botantists, yet the pseudo-specific 



