72 The Rose Garden. 



some measure the air from permeating the soil, which proves so beneficial to the 

 growth of plants. It may be said that an open space round a plant on a lawn is 

 objectionable ; but this may be overcome by placing a few flints or burs on the soil ; 

 or sowing it with annuals of small growth, which will diversify and add to the beauty 

 of the garden. 



Some varieties of Roses, which form large heads when grown as Standards, look 

 well planted singly or in avenues. 



In small gardens, Standards of various kinds may be planted completely round 

 the outside of the lawn, at equal or various distances. 



One or two writers on floriculture have recently written disparagingly of Standard 

 Roses, but there are very few gardens in which their absence would not create a void 

 on account of the elevated masses of brilliant colouring they introduce. Many sorts 

 of Roses, however, are not suitable for Standards, and we need hardly say such should 

 not be grown in that way. 



Weeping Roses form beautiful objects when planted singly on lawns ; and it is 

 surprising that they are not more generally cultivated. Are they so rare that few 

 have yet witnessed them in complete beauty ? It may be so. There is a letter now 

 before me, from an amateur in Devonshire, who purchased from here some years 

 since a plant of the Ayrshire Ruga with a stem eight feet high. It has been trained 

 as a Weeper, and the tips of its branches now rest upon the grass below : an arbour 

 is formed by it, and there is a seat within. The branches are, in the flowering season, 

 covered with blossoms from the head to the ground, and the sight is described as 

 magnificent. 



There are but few kinds naturally suited for this mode of growth ; although many 

 may, by a course of pruning and training, be brought to form handsome specimens. 

 Of natural Weepers, the Ayrshire, Evergreen, Multiflora, and Wichuraiana are the best. 

 Of others, such of the Austrian, the Boursault, the Hybrid Chinese, the Hybrid Noisette, 

 the Noisette, Hybrid Perpetual, Tea-scented, and Hybrid Tea-scented, as are of 

 pendulous growth, should be chosen. The latter groups introduce a pleasing variety 

 of character and colour, points well worth gaining, especially if many Weepers are 

 desired.* 



We should fancy that Roses of pendulous growth, worked on short stems, and 

 planted in vases, would have a pretty effect. Again, if the same kinds were planted 

 as Dwarfs, in raised baskets, on lawns or elsewhere, and their shoots allowed to hang 

 down on all sides, the effect of the masses of flower they produce, if equalled, could 

 not be surpassed. 



We occasionally see varieties of vigorous and straggling growth formed as plain 



* Where any particular mode of growing Roses is recommended, a list of a select few suited for the purpose 

 will be given at the end of Div. I. 



