28 APRIL 



daffodils. Two other beds are planted thickly with 

 mixed hyacinths, another with hyacinths all of pink 

 and creamy tints, and yet a fourth with blues and 

 cold whites. The effect is delightful. There are 

 other beds planted with tulips, but these are not 

 yet out of the bud stage. 



It is very rarely that I see in gardens a series of 

 beds given over wholly to the combination of roses 

 and bulbs, which I consider one of the most satis- 

 factory which I have attempted. Rose specialists 

 have said so much to discourage the growing of 

 anything else with the queen of flowers that many 

 amateur gardeners fear to make the experiment. 

 The rose fancier naturally looks at the question 

 from the circumscribed area of the show table, and 

 it is perfectly true that one cannot have show roses 

 from beds which in spring have been radiant with 

 countless tulips. I do not for a moment contend 

 that the largest and most perfect roses can be got 

 from these beds ; it is obvious that they cannot. 

 But there is a better ideal than this of the exhibitor. 

 We do not want show roses, two or three on a 

 bush, in our everyday gardens ; we want large 

 quantities of blooms average in size, good in shape, 

 and perfect in colour blooms which we can cut by 

 the score or the hundred, leaving no gaps to tell 

 the tale. Roses of this description can be grown 

 with bulbs, and neither the roses nor the bulbs will 

 be such as one need be ashamed of. 



Then, again, the bulb fancier hears with horror 

 the theory that such things as tulips and hyacinths 

 can be permanently planted and left undisturbed 

 for years between the roots of rose bushes. To 



