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■enable the rain or syringe to make a clean sweep of 

 any that did settle on them. Moss Roses should also 

 be avoided, inasmuch as this appendage would favour 

 the collection and retention of dust. The Ban ksi an, 

 Chinese, Koisette, Bourbon, Tea, and their hybrids, 

 being the smoothest-leaved varieties, will, other con- 

 ■ditions being equal, prove also the most desirable as 

 ■street Hoses. 



Among the Hybrid Perpetuals, the following are 

 some of the smoothest-leaved and stemmed: — Cap- 

 tain Christy, Star of Waltham, Duke of Edinburgh, 

 Victor Yerdier, Duke of Teck, Etienne Levet, Charles 

 Lefebvre, Countess of Oxford, Mrs. Baker, Henri de 

 Lcdechaux, Perfection de Lyon, Horace Vemet, 

 JEIippolyte Jamain, and Mdlle. Eugenie Terdier. 

 ■Coupe d'Hebe, Brennus, Charles Lawson, Blairii 

 No. 2, and Paul Eicaut are also good Hybrid Chinese 

 Jor this purpose. 



Soses for Baiiks. — Eoses are also the most 

 brilliant and serviceable clothing for banks. The 

 better and more tender classes of Eoses enjoy shelter, 

 ■and few things can be more enjoyable than a sunk 

 Eose garden, with the sloping banks that lead to it 

 also furnished with Eoses, instead of turf. The 

 warmer banks can be clothed with Tea and Noisette 

 Eoses, the medium ones with vigorous-growing 

 Hybrid Perpetuals, and the coldest with Evergreen, 

 Ayrshire, or other hardy climbing Eoses. The 

 whole should be pegged down as closely to the 

 ^ound as may be, as otherwise they might mar 

 the synraietry, or peirtially conceal the beauty, of the 

 Eose or other garden on the flat or level space 

 below. Though it is here suggested that slope and 

 j)Iain should be wholly devoted to Eoses, this is by 

 DO means necessary, as Eose-banks look well with, 

 -and heighten the beauty of, most other flowers by 

 "their rich contrast. One of the most effective flower 

 -gardens ever seen by the writer was furnished with 

 Verbenas only ; a second with Violas ; and a third 

 "with the usual mixture of bedding plants, chiefly 

 Pelargoniums, Lobelias, Coleus, &c. All these had 

 this in common : they were sheltered and surrounded 

 "with a sloping bank of Eoses, and the Eoses in each 

 ■case seemed the richer part of the garden. 



The Kose on Grass Iia^vns. — By this is not 

 -meant a bed of Eoses on the lawn. These are 

 plentiful enough, and may be appropriate or other- 

 wise, according to circumstances. But by Eoses on 

 grass lawns is meant single plants or groups literally 

 planted in. springing out of, and running semi- wild 

 and free over the turf. Never does " the Rose, the 

 glory of the day," seem more glorious than when up- 

 rising from and cushioninc; its wearied beauty on the 

 ■green grass. It is reported of Sadi the poet that. 



seeing a Eose in a tuft of grass, he cried, " What; 

 is grass fit company for Eoses ?" He was about to 

 tear away the grass, when it meekly besought him, 

 saying, " Spare me ! spare me ! True, I am not the 

 Eose, but my perfume proves that I have associated 

 with Roses." Whether the grass gains much from 

 the Eose may be doubtful, but no one who has seen 

 a mass of Eoses on grass lawns wiU dispute that the 

 Eoses gain considerably from their dose proximity 

 to the turf. 



Eoses in meadows differ nothing from those on 

 lawns, unless it be in the size of the groups, and the 

 necessity, where the meadows are grazed, of a pro- 

 tecting fence against browsing ; for unfortunately 

 stock of aU kinds seem as favourably impressed with 

 the sweetness of the Eose as ourselves, and show it by 

 eating aU up within their reach. But already most 

 home meadows abound with clumiw of trees and 

 shrubs enclosed for security with stock-proof fencing. 

 None of these can be more ornamental than clumps 

 of Eoses. These might either be formed in fresh 

 places, or clearances might be made in existing 

 clumps and furnished with masses of Eoses. 



There need not be any fear of overdoing it. The 

 background is so cool and full of shadow, that even 

 the bright light of many Eoses will fail to splash in 

 colour to excess. 



Some of the stronger-growing Chinese, Teas, 

 Bourbons, and Noisettes, and their hybrids, are 

 among the most effective Eoses on lawns, one of 

 the very best being Gloire de Dijon, and its near 

 allies. Belle Lyonnaise, Beaute de I'Europe, and 

 Madame Berard. The red or pink Roses that so 

 closely resemble the Gloire de Dijon in habit :is to be 

 called Pink Glories — ^viz., Gloire de Bordeaux, May 

 Paul, and Eeine Marie Henriette — prove equally 

 effective, and contrast admirably with the buff-and- 

 gold colour of the Gloire de Dijon. The Noisette 

 Eose, Souvenir de la Mahnaison, with its deep velvety 

 red sport Malmaison Eouge, would form rich masses 

 either singly or combined. The dark crimson 

 Bourbon, Queen of Bedders, also contrasts well on 

 the turf with Setina, a semi-climbing very hardy 

 Eose, producing a profusion of semi-white blossoms. 

 The best of the Hybrid Teas, of the Cheshunt Hybrid 

 class, likewise mass admirably on the grass. Such 

 hj'brids as Coupe d'Heb^ and Charles Lawson can 

 hardly be equalled by the most brilliant and flori- 

 ferous Hybrid Peipetuals. The most vigorous and 

 hardy sorts of the Baronne Prevost type of Perpetuals 

 are best for these purposes. The Ayrshire, Ever- 

 green, and Boursault Eoses form larger masses of a 

 more senu-\\-ild character, one of the very best Eoses 

 for this purpose being the double white Ayrshire, a 

 single plant of which will form a Rose-group cover- 

 ing an area of from ten to twenty j^ards. 



