60 GARDENS OF ENGLAND 



one end of a rather large space of turf. Even this 

 rather hackneyed arrangement may be improved by 

 good colour masses, though we have never seen 

 such a garden that had even this redeeming point. 



But now that our eyes have been opened to 

 wider and deeper views of gardening, and to a grasp 

 of the subject that is not only more powerful but 

 also more refined ; and now that, in obedience to 

 the almost unspoken demand there has arisen a 

 bountiful supply of new and beautiful things in the 

 rose world ; now that all is ready for the doing of 

 better work, it is to be hoped that the knowledge 

 of good growing and the equally necessary dis- 

 criminating taste will work together, so that the 

 rose gardens of the future may be so much better 

 than those of the past days, as are the beautiful 

 roses that we now have than the wildlings from 

 which they are descended. 



The charming rose pictures which are repre- 

 sented in this chapter, that at Newtown House in 

 particular, show the glory of the rose in its full 

 summer beauty, and should have a great teaching 

 value. Here are to be seen many of the newer 

 varieties boldly massed against the light green back- 

 ground of trees, — roses everywhere, rippling over a 

 wall and filling each square box-edged bed with 



