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buildings. The Evergreen Roses (R. sempervirens), 

 retaining their foliage through most of the winter, are 

 sometimes useful, and the huge flower clusters are 

 highly decorative. Cheshunt Hybrid, with bright car- 

 mine flowers, blooms freely in autumn, and in situations 

 where it thrives, the well-known William Allan Richard- 

 son is sure of a welcome. 



The China or Monthly Roses are inseparable features 

 of the typical Cottage Garden. Few things are more 

 charming than a collection of the best dwarf kinds 

 massed together in a bed or narrow wall border. The 

 climbing varieties should be lightly pruned, but the 

 dwarfer sorts bloom more profusely if the knife is used 

 freely. Given a moderately light, though not dry soil, 

 and a sheltered corner, there are few days in the year 

 when buds may not be gathered. 



It is strange that the old-fashioned Moss Roses, once 

 so popular, have suffered an altogether unmerited 

 neglect. Sweetly scented and particularly delightful 

 in bud, they are comparatively seldom met with save 

 in quite small gardens. I suppose that the advent of 

 Rose shows and the persistently belauded Hybrid Per- 

 petuals, has blinded many people to the good and 

 permanent things which once filled our gardens. The 

 Moss Rose, too, is usually a failure grown as a 

 standard, and this doubtless has told against it. The 

 proper way in which to grow it is in beds of rich 

 soil, pegging down the long, vigorous shoots so that the 

 ground is completely covered with their foilage and 

 mossy buds. Kindly treatment they must have, but few 

 Roses are better worth it ; their association with old- 

 time Cottage Gardens makes them additionally welcome, 

 though they are beautiful enough in themselves to merit 

 extended planting. 



Lack of space, both in this book and in the gardens it 

 concerns, prevents mention of many other classes of 



