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Penzance briars are remarkable for the brilliant colouring and profusion 

 of their heps. There are not many truly distinct kinds, as a family 

 likeness runs through them all ; but Anne of Gierstein, or Meg Merrilies, 

 deep crimson ; Amy Robsart, pinky-white ; and Lady Penzance, with 

 copper yellow flowers of great beauty, are the most useful. 



Several single Roses are of value, some for their richly coloured 

 bark in winter, others for their heps. M. litcida, R. polyantha 

 Thunbergi, and R. rubrifolia may be mentioned as the most suit- 

 able. 



The Japanese Roses are, perhaps, apart from the Sweet Briar, the 

 most useful of all Roses to make hedges of. The plants make a dense 

 prickly growth, and are beautiful practically the whole year, and 

 fragrant and showy flowers and large, crimson fruits are produced at the 

 same time. The plants are apt to become bare at the base, but not so if 

 pruned in the way advised. 



Hedges round a Lawn or Flower Garden. When a dwarf hedge is 

 desired, and nothing can be sweeter than Roses round a tennis court or 

 lawn, choose first the Monthly or China Roses. When finer individual 

 flowers are preferred, place faith in the Tea and hybrid Tea kinds, 

 such as Mme. Abel Chatenay, Caroline Testout, Viscountess Folkestone, 

 Marie van Houtte, Mme. Lambard, and Grace Darling, all Roses that 

 will grow between four feet and five feet in height. A dense hedge 

 may be formed with the early-flowering Scotch Roses and the single 

 kinds of the same race. 



Selections of Roses. As complete selections of Roses as possible 

 are given in the chart, bearing in mind the readers for whom this work 

 is chiefly written. It is therefore needless to repeat them in this 

 chapter. 



China Roses. Although the China or Monthly Rose has 

 many delightful attributes, it is by no means present in 

 every garden ; indeed, one may go through many and never 

 see it at all. Some one who truly loves good garden plants 

 says : "If I had only one square yard of garden it should 

 have a bush of Rosemary, but if I had a yard and a-half it 

 should have a Rosemary and a China Rose." It is, indeed, 

 a delightful flower this common old kind, with its loose 

 clusters of cool pink bloom, sometimes cup - shaped and 

 sometimes flattened from the slight reflexing of the fully 

 expanded petals, always dainty and pleasantly fresh-looking, 

 and with a faint and tender scent whose quality exactly 

 matches its modestly charming individuality. There are 

 garden varieties of deeper colour, but these seem rather to 

 lose the distinctive grace of the type ; it is one of the cases, 

 of which others might easily be quoted, where any departure 

 from the type gives varieties that are a loss rather than a gain 

 to beauty. 



