( 



204 CASSELL'S POPULAR GARDEN] XG. 



enable the rain or sponge to make a clean sweep of 

 any that did settle on them. Moss Roses should also 

 he avoided, inasmuch as this appendage would favour 

 the collection and retention of dust. The Banksian, 

 Chinese, Noisette, Boui'hon, Tea, and their hybrids, 

 being the smoothest-leaved varieties, will, other con- 

 ditions being equal, prove also the most desirable as 

 street Roses. 



Among the Hybrid Perpetuals, the following are 

 some of the smoothest-leaved and stemmed : — Cap- 

 tain Christy, Star of "Waltham, Duke of Edinburgh, 

 Victor Yerdier, Duke of Teck, Etienne Levet, Charles 

 Lefebvre, Countess of Oxford, Mrs. Baker, Henri de 

 Ledechaux, Perfection de Lyon, Horace Vernet, 

 Hippolyte Jamain, and Mdlle. Eugenie Yerdier. 

 Coupe d'Hebe, Brennus, Charles Lawson, Blairii 

 No. 2, and Paul Ricaut are also good Hybrid Chinese 

 for this pm^pose. 



Roses for Banks. — Roses are also the most 

 brilliant and serviceable clothing for banks. The 

 better and more tender classes of Roses enjoy shelter, 

 find few things can be more enjoyable than a sunk 

 Rose garden, -with the sloping banks that lead to it 

 also furnished with Roses, instead of tui-f. The 

 warmer banks can be clothed with Tea and Noisette 

 Roses, the medium ones with vigorous-growing 

 Hybrid Perpetuals, and the coldest with Evergreen, 

 Apshire, or other hardy climbing Roses. The 

 whole should be pegged down as closely to the 

 gTOund as may be, as otherwise they might mar 

 the s}Tnmetry, or pai-tially conceal the beauty, of the 

 Rose or other garden on the flat or level space 

 below. Though it is here suggested that slope and 

 plain should be wholly devoted to Roses, this is by 

 no means necessary, as Rose-banks look well with, 

 and heighten the beauty of, most other flowers by 

 their rich contrast. One of the most effective flower 

 gardens ever seen by the writer was fiu-nished with 

 Yerbenas only ; a second with Yiolas ; and a third 

 with the usual mixture of bedding plants, chiefly 

 Pelargoniums, Lobelias, Coleus, &:c. All these had 

 €his in common : they were sheltered and surrounded 

 with a sloping bank of Roses, and the Roses in each 

 case seemed the richer part of the garden. 



The Rose on G-rass Lawns.— By this is not 

 meant a bed of Roses on the lawn. These are 

 plentiful enough, and may be appropriate or other- 

 wise, according to circumstances. But by Roses on 

 grass lawns is meant single plants or groups literally 

 planted in, springing out of, and running semi-wild 

 and free over the turf. Never does " the Rose, the 

 glory of the day," seem more glorious than when up- 

 lisiog from and cushioning its wearied beauty on the 

 green grass. It is reported of Sadi the poet that, 



seeing a Rose in a tuft of grass, he cried, " "VMiat ! 

 is grass fit company for Roses r" He was about to 

 tear away the grass, when it meekly besought him, 

 saying, " Spare me 1 spare me I True, T am not the 

 Rose, but my perfume proves that I have associated 

 with Roses." Whether the grass gains much from 

 the Rose may be doubtful, but no one who has seen 

 a mass of Roses on grass lawns will dispute that the 

 Roses gain considerably from their close proximity 

 to the turf. 



Roses in meadows differ nothing from those on 

 lawns, unless it be in the size of the groups, and the 

 necessity, where the meadows are grazed, of a pro- 

 tecting fence against browsing ; for unfortimately 

 stock of all kinds seem as favourably impressed with 

 the sweetness of the Rose as ourselves, and show it by 

 eating all up AN-ithin their reach. But already most 

 home meadows abound with clumps of trees and 

 shrubs enclosed for secuiitv with stock-proof fencing. 

 None of these can be more ornamental than clumps 

 of Roses. TPiese might either be formed in fresh 

 places, or clearances might be made in existing 

 clumps and furnished with masses of Roses. 



There need not be any fear of overdoing it. The 

 backgi'ound is so cool and full of shadow, that even 

 the bright light of many Roses Mill fail to splash in 

 colour to excess. 



Some of the stronger -growing Chinese, Teas, 

 Bourbons, and Noisettes, and their hybrids, are 

 among the most effective Roses on lawns, one of 

 the very best being Gloire de Dijon, and its near 

 allies. Belle Lyonnaise, Beaute de 1' Europe, and 

 Madame Berard. The red or pink Roses that so 

 closely resemble the Gloire de Dijon in habit as to be 

 called Pink Glories — ^iz., Gloire de Bordeaux, May 

 Paul, and Reine Marie Henriette — prove equally 

 effective, and contrast admirably with the buff-and- 

 gold colour of the Gloire de Dijon. The Noisette 

 Rose, Souvenir de la ]\Ialmaison, with its deep velvety 

 red sport Malmaison Rouge, would form rich masses 

 either singly or combined. The dark crimson 

 Bourbon, Queen of Bedders, also contrasts well on 

 the turf with Setina, a semi-climbing very hardy 

 Rose, producing a profusion of semi- white Islossoms. 

 The best of the Hybrid Teas, of the Cheshunt Hybrid 

 class, likewise mass admirably on the grass. Such 

 hybrids as Coupe d'Hebe and Charles Lawson can 

 hardly be equalled by the most brilliant and flori- 

 ferous Hybrid Perpetuals. The most vigorous and 

 hardy sorts of the Baronne Prevost type of Perpetuals 

 are best for these purposes. The Apshire, Ever- 

 green, and Boursault Roses form larger masses of a 

 more semi-^-ild character, one of the very best Roses 

 for this purpose being the double white Ayrshire, a 

 single plant of which will form a Rose-group cover- 

 ing an area of fi'om ten to twenty yards. 



