430 JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
{ December 5, 1878. 
indeed the list on the whole is a melancholy one. A few of 
the varieties produced what is termed “paying crops,” and 
the following are selected as the best varieties arranged as 
nearly as possible (all points considered) in the order of 
relative merit. 1, Covent Garden Perfection; 2, Magnum 
Bonum; 3, Clarke’s Cranemoor (late white); 4, Sextus; 5, 
McKinlay’s Pride; 6, Suttons? King; 7, Snowflake; 8, Peach- 
blow; 9, Schoolmaster; 10, Woodstock Kidney; 11, Clarke’s 
Late Prolific; 12, Early Ashleaf; 13, Early Hammersmith ; 
14, Brownell’s Seedling ; 15, Early Oxford ; 16, Suttons’ Queen ; 
17, Model; 18, Scotch Regent; 19, King of the Earlies; 20, 
Redskin Flourball; 21, Paterson’s Victoria; 22, Early Rose; 
23, Champion of England, 
A ROSE GARDEN. 
“ A BLAZE of colour for a few days, a feastof Roses, and then 
So said “WYLD SAVAGE” a 
all was over till the autumn.” 
short time ago when telling us of the display of Roses in his 
garden this year. Extend the days to weeks if you will, butat 
best it may fairly be asked, Are Rose gardens really orna- 
mental except during the brief period of flowering? I trow not. 
Many a Rose garden have I seen, but hardly any—certainly 
not more than one or two, that at all approached my ideal of 
what such a garden should be. It may be useful-to describe 
two extreme examples; the first, a simple design consisting 
of a central circular bed some 10 feet in diameter surrounded 
by four of those oblongs and four circles, with which we are 
_ now so familiar, with a similar outer ring of longer oblongs 
and circles, forming altogether a group of seventeen small 
beds laid out on turf, of which there was a wide margin 
outside with an irregular semicircle of Rhododendrons, shut- 
ting in the group in a cosy nook in a somewhat secluded 
spot upon which one came unexpectedly round a curve of 
a shrubbery walk from among tree and shrub groups. The 
effect was charming—not from any novelty of design, for 
Scale 20 feet to the inch. 
Fig. 65. 
A, Vine borders or turf. D, Shrub beds, The walls to be clothed with Tea 
B, Paths. E, Roses. Roses mingled with a few choice 
c, Turf. F, F, Recess for seats. evergreen climbers. 
everybody is familiar with that who has read Loudon’s “En- 
cyclopzdia of Gardening ’—but from the well-chosen situation 
in such admirable harmony with the soft outlines of the beds, 
and the relief and warmth which the turf and shrubs imparted. 
The second is a rectangular space quite a dozen times the size 
of the first, laid out in a series of large square beds and long 
borders with intersecting paths, a trellis of poles around the 
outside for climbing Roses, and the whole shut in by lofty 
trees. Everything about it was stiff, formal, and uncompromis- 
ing. In point of fact it was a mere large plot devoted solely 
to the production of large flowers for exhibition. 
Now there can be no reason why all Rose gardens should not 
be made as attractive as our first example, and this can only be 
effected by mingling Rose beds with others containing shrubs, 
or placing them near groups of shrubs and trees, which thus 
act as a foil to the flowers and lend warmth to the scene 
throughout the year. That Rose beds should contain nothing 
but Roses all will agree who are aware what a gross feeder the 
Rose is, and how requisite high culture and abundant supplies 
of manure are to keep it in vigorous health. Long and some- 
what narrow beds or small circles are preferable, because they 
facilitate that close inspection of all the flowers which is so 
desirable, and which ladies are debarred from when they are 
planted in large deep masses. 
Figs. 65 and 66 will serve to illustrate my teaching, and may 
prove useful to others as well as “ A SUBSCRIBER,” who “ wants 
the plan of a Rose garden 30 yards square walled on three sides, 
the walls are to be covered with Ivy, a gravel walk and vinery 
on the other side ;” our correspondent also wishing it to be 
laid out on grass, which wish I have ignored, for to render sa 
large a space attractive without paths would be to exclude 
most people from walking about it except in very dry weather 
