Glowing Reflections 
and colour, such an extended period of blooming, such 
adaptable habits of growth that there can be found, 
sorts that will climb over a house and cover the roof 
with flower, or provide a neat and glowing edging to a 
border, and achieve almost everything the garden 
requires in between these two extremes? It is because 
they are sufficient in themselves for most garden pur- 
poses that they have appropriated a place in the Eng- 
lish garden that is held by no other flower. 
Whether it be in the form of pleasant shady walks 
arched over as— 
‘A garden bowered close, with plaited alleys of the trailing 
Rose,” 
or the wilder free-growing masses of the same varieties 
used to clothe an ugly building, tumbling in glorious 
profusion of bloom over a bank too steep for grass even 
to grow thereon, by the side of a road, or perchance 
overhanging and casting their glowing reflections into 
the water, or whether in the more conventional and 
formal arrangement of the Rose garden, it is still the 
flower of the garden. 
In the little garden, however, the restriction of space 
renders it impossible to indulge in the riot of luxurious 
growth and colour that is so attractive in Roses planted 
in free and informal masses in a semi-wild condition. 
As a matter of fact, it is not all varieties that are suit- 
able for this method of culture, and for the little garden 
the more orderly arrangement of formal beds is not only 
preferable but imperative. This does not mean that 
an elaborate and intricate system of geometrical pat- 
terns must be worked out in the form of beds, and filled 
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