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whole new ranges of fine Roses. Of these the most 

 prominent have been products of R. polyantka, mgosa, 

 rubiginosa, and wichuriana. The striking success of 

 many of these later hybrids is encouraging in the 

 highest degree, and the field for future work is so 

 immense that the imagination can hardly grasp the 

 extent of the prospect that these earlier successes 

 seem to open out. 



There are so many ways in which Roses may be 

 beautiful. Even in the varied form and habit pos- 

 sessed by the types some special kind of beauty 

 is shown and some special garden utility is fore- 

 shadowed. And then we think of the future pos- 

 sibilities of the Rose garden ! Already — we say it 

 with deliberation and a feeling of honest convic- 

 tion — the Rose garden has never been developed 

 to anything like its utmost possible beauty. The 

 material already to hand even twenty years ago has 

 never been worthily used. 



The Rose garden to be beautiful must be designed 

 and planted and tended, not with money and labour 

 and cultural skill only, but with brains and with 

 love, and with all those best qualities of critical 

 appreciation — the specially-cultured knowledge of 

 what is beautiful, and why it is beautiful — besides 

 the indispensable ability of the practical cultivator. 



There are in some places acres of Rose gardens, 

 many of them only costly expositions of how a Rose 

 garden had best not be made. The beautiful Rose 

 garden, that shall be the living presentment of the 

 poet's dream, and shall satisfy the artist's eye, and 



