144 THE NEW GARDENING 



for several months in the year. Grown bolder, he now 

 plants low things, such as Polyanthuses and Violas, 

 between his Roses ; and is gratified to find that with 

 deeply tilled, well-manured soil, and with reasonable 

 restriction of the dwarf plants, the Roses are not a whit 

 the worse. Primroses and Polyanthuses are the ideal 

 plants for this purpose, for, raised under glass in winter 

 and planted out in autumn, they carpet the ground, 

 bloom beautifully in late spring of the following year, 

 and can be removed when the Roses come into bloom. 



