184 GARDEN DESIGN 



roses for London, and there is an additional reason 

 for such quantity ; but people generally require 

 more varieties. In fact once the rose is cared 

 for it seems impossible to stop adding new sorts. 

 But a mixture of colours confuses the design, 

 and even uniform height is an advantage to be 

 sought after. Contrasts, as of a mass of flaming 

 Victor Hugo with a neighbouring bed of Frau 

 Karl Druschki, benefit the appearance of both 

 flowers and the design. Two varieties may be 

 planted together, if regularly set out in the bed, 

 and a harmony in colour is recommended above 

 a contrast. In order to accommodate favourites 

 crowded out of the massed beds, other quarters 

 should be set apart for them. The rose garden 

 of the drawing page 183 has a border running 

 along the parapet boundary to take these. 



Beds for pegged-down roses should also be in- 

 cluded. The semi-climbers such as Gustave Regis 

 and Zephirin Drouhin are well adapted for such 

 treatment and flower prodigiously under it. More- 

 over the pegging makes a variety in the habit of 

 the roses, which in bush form may become mono- 

 tonous. The question as to whether any other 

 flower is to be included with the roses is one for 

 the owner and his gardener to decide. An 

 exhibitor would scout the notion of an edging or 

 underplanting of any kind, but where roses are 

 for decoration only the addition of violas, saxi- 

 frages, plain white pinks or bulbs undoubtedly 



