CHAPTER X 



GARDEN ROSES 



Just out of Interlachen, the tourist on his way to 

 Lauterbrunnen was invited, when I was there, by his 

 courier or his coachman to leave the main road, and, 

 walking up the higher ground on the right, to survey 

 from the garden of a small residence, used as a pension 

 or boarding-house, one of the most lovely views in 

 Switzerland — the two lakes of Thun and Brienz. So 

 would I now invite the amateur to survey and to 

 consider the Roses in two divisions. I would 

 describe those, in the first place, which are desirable 

 additions to the Rosarium, either as enhancing the 

 general effect from the abundance or colour of their 

 flowers, or as having some distinctive merit of their 

 own, and which, not being suitable for exhibition, I 

 designate as Garden Roses ; and I would then make 

 a selection of the varieties which produce the most 

 symmetrical and perfect blooms — that is to say, of 

 Roses for exhibition. 



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