76 ROSES FOR ENGLISH GARDENS 



It is always well to have two or three of the same 

 range of colouring, with perhaps one harmonious 

 departure, such as Madame Lambard, Papa Gontier, 

 and Laurette Messimy, or G. Nabonnand, Vicountess 

 Folkestone, and Hon. Edith Gifford, or Souvenir de 

 Catherine Guillot, White Maman Cochet, and Anna 

 Ollivier. 



The same suggestion will be found of use in arrang- 

 ing them in beds, for a jarring mixture, such as one 

 of the orange-copper Hybrid Teas, with kinds of cool 

 pink and white, will have an unsatisfactory effect. 

 Both may be lovely things, but they should not be 

 placed together. But to learn to observe this — first 

 of all to see that it makes a difference, then to become 

 aware that it might be better, and finally to be dis- 

 tinctly vexed with an inharmonious combination, these 

 are all stages in growth of perception that should 

 be gone through in the training of the Rose enthusiast's 

 mind and eye. 



It is best and easiest to learn to do this with the cut 

 flowers, and a pleasant task it is to have a quantity 

 of mixed cut Roses and to lay them together in beau- 

 tiful harmonies — best, perhaps, in some cool, shady 

 place upon the grass — and then to observe what two 

 or three, or three or four kinds, go best together, 

 and to note it for further planting or indoor ar- 

 rangement. Then, as an example of what is 

 unsuitable, try a Captain Christy and a Madame 

 Eugene Resal together, and see how two beautiful 

 Roses can hurt each other by incompatibility of 

 kind and colour. 



