MAKING A ROSE GARDEN 79 



Hedera helix, the English Ivy, and Vinca major, the trailing 

 Myrtle, that everybody in the South calls Periwinkle, if kept 

 within bounds by regular clipping may also be used to form the 

 boundary between the walks and beds of the Rose garden or of 

 the perennials in the formal garden devoted to their growth. 



In a formal Rose garden with a bird bath or a sundial as the 

 central axis in the midst of grass walks and Box-edged beds, as 

 above outlined, the spaces for the Roses may be filled with the 

 silvery pinks of the Killarneys, or the exquisite Radiance, the 

 stately Lady Alice Stanley, or the dainty Bridesmaid, all Roses 

 of tested value and equally desirable. Caroline Testout is another 

 bedding Rose of prodigal wealth of blossoms, and beds of these 

 varieties will give pleasure and satisfaction without end. 



For the white Roses that make the high lights in this garden 

 canvas we will put Kaiserin Augusta Victoria, the silvery White 

 Maman Cochet, the magnificent Frau Karl Druschki and the 

 delicately lovely Bride. For the sunlight of the garden, Etoile 

 de Lyon, Madame Blumenschmidt and Franz Deegen form yel- 

 low beds of unrivaled color. Blending with these shades of gold 

 we have the orange lights to be found in Sunburst, the coppery 

 yellow Francesca Kruger, the Indian yellow Mrs. Aaron Ward, 

 Madame Ravary, and Lady Hillingdon, so that these varieties 

 with their tones of yellow, orange and salmon pink carry the 

 color scale through the warm tones into the deeper pinks of Amer- 

 ican Beauty and George Arends, and lead us naturally to the 

 deeper crimson and reds of Ulrich Brunner, J. B. Clark and 

 Meteor, and that reddest and best of all everblooming red Roses, 

 Chateau de Clos Vougeot. All of these Roses will not only give 

 an abundance of bloom in the Spring but most of them bloom 

 intermittently all Summer and are gorgeous from August until 

 the late frosts of November and December bring Winter to the 

 garden. 



Framing such a garden of formal beds there should be an 

 enclosing wall formed of a hedge of Amoor Privet, Ligustriim 

 amurense, or Arborvitaes. Against this background the more 

 vigorous planting like the Bourbons, Souvenir de Malmaison, 



