garden form of the wild Meadow-sweet of our damp meadow-ditches. 

 Then the tall Bocconia, with its important bluish leaves and feathery 

 flower-beads, which shows in the picture in brownish seed-pod ; and the 

 Thalictrums, pale yellow and purple, and Canterbury Bells, and Lilies 

 yellow and white, and the tall broad-leaved Bell-tiowers. 



All these should be in these good gardens, besides the many kinds or 

 Scotch Briers, and big bushes of the old, almost forgotten garden 

 Roses of a hundred years ago, many of which are no longer to be 

 found, except now and then in these old gardens of Scotland. For 

 here some gardens seem to have escaped that murderously overwhelming 

 wave of fashion for tender bedding plants alone, that wrought such havoc 

 throughout England during three decades of the last century. 



Here, too, are Roses trained in various pretty simple ways. Our 

 garden Roses come from so many different wild plants, from all over the 

 temperate world, that there is hardly an end to the number of ways in 

 which they can be used. Some of them, like the Scotch Briers, grow in 

 close bushy masses ; some have an upright habit ; some like to rush up 

 trees and over hedges ; others again will trail along the ground and even 

 run downhill. Some are tender and must have a warm wall ; some will 

 endure severe cold ; some will flower all the summer ; others at one 

 season only. So it is that we find in various gardens, Roses grown in 

 many different ways. In one as small bushes in beds, or budded on 

 standards, in another as the covering of a pergola, or as fountain roses, 

 throwing up many stems which arch over naturally. Some of the oldest 

 garden Roses, such as The Garland, Dundee Rambler and Bennett's Seedling 

 are the best for this kind of use. 



The Himalayan R. polyantha will grow in this way into a huge bush, 

 sometimes as much from thirty to forty feet in diameter, and many of 

 the beautiful modern garden Roses that have /»o/y^«M<j for a near ancestor, 

 will do well in the same way, though none of them attain so great a size. 

 Roses grown like this take a form with, roughly speaking, a semi-circular 

 outline, like an inverted basin. If they are wanted to take a shape higher 

 in proportion they must be trained through or over some simple frame- 

 work. This is called balloon-training. Some roses are grown in this 

 fashion at Kellie, the framework being a central post irom which hoops 



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