ROSES FOR SPECIAL PURPOSES 125 



and fragrance through the season. As a 

 whole, the rose family asks for a deep, rich 

 and heavy soil; but the Burnet, or Scotch, 

 roses will thrive in sand; so will the Memorial, 

 or Wichuraiana and there are a score of 

 excellent varieties derived from this which 

 make rampant growth with almost no soil at 

 all, and seem not to ask much care. 



We have been so long trained to think and 

 speak of roses as only for their individual 

 flowers that whole groups and families of 

 kinds that do not make a great display of 

 specimen individual flowers have been almost 

 lost to the sight of the ordinary individual. It 

 is not true that all roses are ugly plants, to be 

 regarded only as the means of producing 

 glorious roses, and that therefore their proper 

 place is in an out-of-the-way corner where 

 they will never be seen. Roses there are 

 which are as good material for the garden 

 picture as any other of the flowering shrubs. 

 Let us have roses about our homes, and in 

 every garden. If there is no other possibility, 

 plant a climber to ramble over the piazza and 

 show its rose buds about the window frame. 

 Elsewhere have walks of roses, arbours of 

 roses, pillars of roses, roses climbing up, and 



