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as a second question, how may they be adapted 

 to the limited opportunities of a limited garden? 



Answering the first, they ought never to be 

 used as we use shrubs because they are not 

 shrubs, however shrubby certain ones may be 

 in their habit of growth. (The Rugosas are 

 shrubs and used as such, as will be seen when 

 they are considered.) These roses are cultivated 

 plants in the fullest sense of the word, and there- 

 fore plants requiring cultivation. And this 

 brings us to the necessity of planting them only 

 where cultivation is possible; in other words in 

 places specially prepared for them, where their 

 peculiar needs may be easily met and invariably 

 regarded. They may not be scattered here and 

 there nor intermingled with shrubs nor utilized 

 as a screen nor massed as a border planting 

 nor any of the other things that may be done 

 with some things. They must be individually 

 planted for their own sake alone, precisely as a 

 cabbage or a cauliflower is planted — and tended 

 accordingly. 



Obviously therefore, the place for roses is in 

 a rose garden; and there is no gainsaying this, 

 however difficult it may sound. Is it difficult, 

 however? Not unless it is made so; for, after all, 

 a rose garden need not be large and it need not 

 be set apart by any walls or barriers of extraor- 



