CHAPTER VIII 



THE NEW ROSE-GROWING 



EVERYTHING makes for freedom in modern Rose-growing. 

 The old stiff bed system is passing away ; except in the 

 gardens of exhibitors. We see banks covered with the 

 abundant glossy foliage and brilliant flowers of the 

 Wichuraianas, huge bushes of the splendid rugosa in 

 separate groups, and rustic divisions covered with a riot 

 of ramblers. 



The more freely and naturally Roses are grown the 

 greater the demand for plants, because people learn uses 

 for the Queen of Flowers which they had not thought of 

 before. Even now it comes as a surprise to some Rose- 

 lovers to be told that a waste bank carrying nothing 

 more interesting than rough, coarse grass could be made 

 beautiful with ground Roses. The wall, the arch, the 

 pillar, the pergola they can realize, but the bank puzzles 

 them. 



No class of Roses has grown more rapidly in recent 

 years than the Memorial Roses. They have sprung from 

 the Japanese species Wichuraiana, which has single 

 white flowers, but many of them are hybrids, or rather 

 sub-hybrids, having a Hybrid Perpetual for one of the 

 parents. Raisers in America, France and Germany have 

 all produced beautiful forms. 



Let me tell of a collection of these Roses covering a 

 bank in a large garden which I know shrouding it in a 



