io8 GARDENS PAST AND PRESENT 



ative. Parkinson was not unmindful of this fact, 

 for in his comments on the great apple rose he 

 says "the whole beautie of this plant consisteth 

 more in the gracefull aspect of the red apples or 

 fruit hanging upon the bushes then in the flowers 

 or any other thing." The " red apples " of the 

 Japanese R. rugosa are finer still, and a bush of 

 the single white form, with its splendid wrinkled 

 leafage, has a second season of great charm when 

 autumn hangs it with ripe scarlet heps. 



Rose gardens in their design are as various as 

 the domains of which they form a part. It is a 

 moot point whether roses are best planted severely 

 alone in separate beds, or placed by a loving hand 

 and well-trained eye amongst other flowers. Every- 

 one must judge for himself according to individual 

 taste and circumstance. But a picture once seen 

 dwells in memory of a flagged pathway leading 

 onwards to an old sundial. On each side were 

 long oblong beds planted with low bushes crowded 

 with roses in full heyday of glory. It was simple 

 as it could be, and yet no arrangement could have 

 appealed more surely to a sense of fitness, as the 

 roses uplifted their heads in silent joy towards 

 heaven, while they cheered the passer-by with their 

 sweet unconscious beauty. To point the moral the 

 legend of the sundial might well have been : 



TIME is AND is NOT. 



LET us 

 EACH PASSING HOUR 



SERVE GOD 

 AND ONE ANOTHER. 



