ROSES ON WALLS AND HOUSES 59 



wooden railing. One cannot but be thankful that 

 when the windows were altered so much for the 

 worse, the railing was not replaced by a cast-iron 

 " ornamental " atrocity. 



When a house is of fine design one hesitates about 

 covering it with flowering plants, but in such cases 

 they find their right places on terrace walls, unless 

 these are decorated with wrought stone balustrading. 



The illustration shows an example of good use of 

 the beautiful Garland Rose on the terrace of a good 

 square-built house of middle or late eighteenth century 

 construction. The terrace is not balustraded, and the 

 two or three feet of height gained by the rising of the 

 Rose and the other free growths give the needed sense 

 of security in a kind of living parapet. 



Many are the Roses for use on garden walls. They 

 are detailed in lists referred to at the end of the 

 chapter on Pillar Roses, and only some of the most 

 remarkable need be here noticed. 



In the south of England, walls facing south and 

 south-west are too hot a place for many of the Roses 

 commonly planted against them, although these ex- 

 posures suit the tender Roses, the Noisettes, Banksias, 

 Macartneys, and Fortune's Yellow, all of rambling 

 growth. Here is also the place for the beautiful 

 Persian Briers, including the scarlet so-called Austrian, 

 the curious Abyssinian Rosa Ecce with yellow blooms 

 the size of a shilling, Rosa simplicifolia Hardi with 

 yellow flowers that have a dark blotch at the base 

 of the petal, and Rosa micropkylla, a flower whose 

 character is quite its own. The double variety has 



