BORDER ROSES AND CLIMBERS 147 



The favourite white-flowered Madame Plantier, 

 which is classed as a hybrid China, is a splendid Rose, 

 forming in time huge bushes, each wandlike branch 

 wreathed with snowy, double blossoms in June. I 

 know a beautiful garden where great bushes of this and 

 the shining Persian Yellow Brier alternate along a long 

 walk and create a bewildering pageant of beauty in the 

 season of their blooming. 



THE BRIERS. These are an enchanting race. Long- 

 limbed and graceful, bearing for the most part single blos- 

 soms in lovely colours, and boasting a delicious fragrance, 

 both of flower and leaf. They may be trained against 

 pillars and trellises, used to form hedges, or allowed to 

 grow, as I love them best, into great free bushes. 



The Sweet-brier, or Eglantine, is too well known to 

 need special description: its long branches starred with 

 single pink flowers, its fragrant, "rain-scented" leafage, 

 and its gay haws are familiar to most of us. And one 

 would not be without a bush or two for old sakes' sake, 

 though the splendid race created by Lord Penzance, and 

 named for him, of which the simple Eglantine is a 

 parent, are in a fair way to taking its place in most 

 gardens. They have lost nothing of the sweetness of 

 foliage and have gained truly glorious colours peach, 

 blush, copper, ecru, cherry, and dazzling scarlet. These 

 roses are as hardy as iron and very quick growing if good 

 soil is provided for them, and they make splendid bushes 

 in a short time. The kinds we have here are Brenda, a 



