lovely perennials? Not you. Oh, no indeed; that was all left 

 to the head gardener. Therefore there were no discussions, 

 no planning, nothing to arouse a spirit of co-operation, of 

 ambition, of a desire to improve, to excel, to please — no, 

 nothing but a lack of thought, indifference, ju^ the desire 

 " to get the thing done". But at the same time the house 

 and terrace and verandas mu^ be gay with flowers and they 

 were gay with flowers of a sort much too gay. All the delicately 

 lovely things are on other terraces and verandas but not on 

 yours. How often this is the case! So it will be, ju^ so long as 

 we fail to take real interest in our gardens and a real intere^ 

 in what is to be grown in them. 



^ Don't you " loathe " Golden Glow? 1 do. But there it has 

 remained year after year toppling over by the end of July 

 and if it is propped up at all, it is with a piece of cord tied about 

 its middle, a great bunched-in mass of ugliness, whereas, 

 had you known about it, a golden pillar rose would have 

 replaced Golden Glow with its charming name and consid- 

 ering some of the ugly names some beautiful flowers have, 

 this is a pretty one waited on a homely specimen. 

 ^ There are several new pillar roses that I know mu^ have 

 ju^t been created to take the place of such things as Golden 

 Glow and Helianthus and the big bush marigold that spreads 

 so alarmingly, robbing of glory all the finer flowers unfortunate 

 enough to be near them. I think Danae or William Allen 

 Richardson, would replace the Golden Glow perfecftly 33 

 Personally, my choice would be Danae, not that it is lovelier 

 than William Allen Richardson, but because while it blooms 

 all Summer long, it is especially bright with its golden flowers 

 in September, and that is when we need roses mo^t. 

 ^ Danae is one of the Rev. J. H. Pemberton roses and has 



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