64 GARDENS OF ENGLAND 



of scarlet bloom, and Aim^e Vibert making snowy 

 mantles everywhere. This was a garden of roses, 

 the most beautiful sorts filling the borders and 

 beds round the house with colour and the air 

 with sweetness. Against the house itself, in a 

 warm sunny corner. Fortune's Yellow was as much 

 at home as on the Mediterranean shore, and no 

 rose is lovelier than this — apricot, salmon, and other 

 shades painted on petals which have none of the 

 stiffness of many a " show " variety. The " climb- 

 ing " roses which give me most pleasure are Aim^e 

 Vibert, pure white, and flowering very late in the 

 year; it seems always in bloom, and has another 

 virtue in its almost evergreen leaves. It is quite 

 possible that a group of true evergreen roses will 

 be raised in the future. The Wichuraiana Jersey 

 Beauty glistens with colour through the winter, 

 almost as fresh and sparkling as the holly in the 

 neighboiu-ing hedgerow; Alister Stella Gray has 

 self yellow clusters which appear in both summer 

 and autumn; Bennett's Seedling, white, a very 

 old garden rose sometimes called Thoresbyana ; 

 Bouquet d'Or, one of the Gloire de Dijon race, 

 but without the extraordinary freedom of the 

 type; F^licitd Perpdtu^ creamy white and ever- 

 green; Gloire de Dijon, which I need not 



