54 ROSES FOR ENGLISH GARDENS 



thrown out at each joint. The way these young 

 main branches spring up and bend over when mature 

 is exactly the way that best displays the bloom. 

 Each little flower of the cluster is shown in just the 

 most beautiful way ; and it is charming to see, when 

 light winds are about, how the ends of the sprays, 

 slightly stirred by the active air, make pretty curtsey- 

 ing movements arising from the weight of the crowded 

 bloom and the elasticity of the supporting stem. 



There is a whole range of use of these beautiful 

 Roses, from this free fountain shape without any 

 artificial support, to association with trees and bushes 

 in shrub clumps and wood edges, and from that to 

 clambering into the trees themselves. 



The illustration shows this pretty Cluster Rose grow- 

 ing over and among some Pernettyas, beside a broad 

 grassy way that passes from garden into copse. The 

 young growths may be seen rising above it, as yet 

 quite soft and tender, and only half grown. As the 

 year goes on they will harden and mature and arch 

 over, and next year bloom in their turn. 



When these free Roses rush up into trees, instead 

 of throwing out their new growths from close to the 

 earth, they are formed upon the older wood higher 

 up, and the stem or stems that supports them go 

 on growing till sometimes they attain a considerable 

 thickness. 



Everything that has been said of the Garland Rose, 

 as to its use as a fountain Rose or free climber, may 

 also be said of Dundee Rambler, Bennett's Seedling, 

 Felicite-Perpetue, and others of the cluster Roses 



