58 GARDENS OF ENGLAND 



to show all the best that roses can do for us for the 

 beautifying of our gardens. 



It is not to be expected that the best possible 

 use of roses should be commonly seen, for to form 

 it well the rose garden would have to be the work 

 of the consummate garden artist ; of one who 

 combines the knowledge that will enable him to 

 rightly form the place to its own circumstances and 

 that of its environment with a keen appreciation of 

 form and colour, and an intimate acquaintance with 

 the flower. For among the multitude of roses that 

 may be had, one has to remember that they are 

 derived, as I have mentioned, from many different 

 species, inhabitants of nearly all the temperate 

 regions of the Northern Hemisphere; and that their 

 ways are as different and almost as many as their 

 places of origin. 



So the maker of the rose garden has to have a 

 complete knowledge of the wants and ways of his 

 material ; also in designing the garden, whether its 

 lines be free or formal, he will bear in mind its best 

 purpose, which is to present a picture, or series of 

 pictures, of some of the most beautiful of flowers, 

 disposed in such ways as may best display their 

 own loveliness, and at the same time take their 

 proper place in the whole scheme. The knowledge 



