OLD GARDEN ROSES 15 



slight shade, as it shrivels in full sun. There is a 

 strong growing garden variety, much more free in 

 habit than the type, but it does not make such neat 

 bushes. It is remarkable that a Rose so well known 

 should have no English name. The double form 

 that has been long in English gardens, but has never 

 become common, and whose merit is only now be- 

 coming recognised, is one of the loveliest of bush 

 Roses. It has the pretty old name Rose d'Amour. 

 How this Rose of American origin first came to be 

 a plant of old English gardens is a question that I 

 must leave to be answered by the botanist-antiquary ; 

 what chiefly concerns us is that it is one of the most 

 delightful things in the garden. 



The Scotch Briers are considered in the chapter 

 on Brier Roses, and the newer Sweet Briers in that 

 of New Garden Roses, though the old pink single 

 Sweet Brier is, of course, in place here. Many are the 

 ways in which it can be used. Planted in a double 

 row and judiciously pruned, it makes a capital and 

 most fragrant hedge from four to six feet high ; but 

 it is perhaps prettiest planted among shrubs, with its 

 graceful arching stems shooting up through them, or 

 in bushy brakes either by itself or among Thorn 

 bushes in one of the regions where the garden joins 

 wilder ground. It will also assume quite a climbing 

 habit if it is led into some tree like a Holly, or 

 encouraged to scramble through straggling Black 

 or White Thorn of tallish growth in some old hedge. 



Important among the old garden Roses is R. alba. 

 Though it is allowed to bear a botanical name, it is 



