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its characteristic flood of colour when it is planted 

 with no niggardly hand. One bed there of Una, 

 a creamy white flower of exquisite beauty, is 

 seventy feet in circumference, and fifteen plants 

 fill this great space. When they are in full bloom 

 scarcely a leaf is visible ; it is simply a cloud of 

 flowers. And this brings other thoughts, thoughts 

 of the adaptabUity of the rose for the woodland. 

 As a well-known rose grower remarked, "The 

 planting of roses should not stop at the garden 

 boundary." Why not use some of the delightful 

 hybrid sweet briars, and other single and half 

 double roses to border the paddock, or in the 

 woods ? One of my earliest recollections of roses 

 is centred in some huge bushes of the native briar 

 flowering in rich profusion in an old stone quarry 

 to which I was sent to gather moss for use at our 

 flower show. Whilst, then, roses are to be found 

 in almost every hedgerow, and in their simple 

 beauty are not excelled, I think we might supple- 

 ment them by mingling the fragrant sweet briars, 

 which we owe to the late Lord Penzance's 

 energetic labours in hybridisation. We need not 

 stop at planting sweet briars, for there is an 

 abundance of other kinds at command. There are 

 the charming Japanese roses (Rosa rugosa), which 



