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demand is now so great that raisers can scarcely keep pace with it, for 

 everyone who is really interested in good gardening is now clamouring 

 for the Garden Roses, both old and new. 



Some of the old varieties which have always been with us, but have 

 been for a time neglected, are now valued as they should be, and, instead 

 of merely existing in forgotten corners in some gardens only, they are 

 being planted in fair quantity and with care and thought for their best 

 use. So now we see in every good garden the old pink China, the 

 Provence, Moss, Damask, and the fine old rambling Ayrshires side by 

 side with the new Ramblers and the host of beautiful hybrids of various 

 parentage. 



The new Ramblers derived from B. multiflora at once became 

 popular, and the hybrids of rugosa and Wichuraiana have already 

 shown their value, while year by year new Roses for garden beauty are 

 appearing. 



The new hybrid Teas are among the most precious of Roses, doing 

 well in many gardens where Teas are not entirely successful ; many also 

 are the lovely things among the new hybrid Chinas. 



This wealth of beautiful material for simple garden use being now 

 ready — and only a portion of it has been briefly referred to — it is in- 

 teresting to see how desirous people are to make some good use of it. 

 The quantity is so great, and the ways and habits of the different species 

 from which the new Roses have come are so various, that there is scarcely 

 a department of gardening in which some may not be rightly used. There 

 are Roses for beds and borders, for large isolated specimens, for pillars, 

 for arches, for arbours and pergolas, for trellises and screens, for walls 

 high and low, for rambling into trees and over wild undergrowth, for 

 crowning retaining-walls, for rock-gardening, and for trailing over banks 

 or broken ground. There are Roses also for the stately terrace of refined 

 architecture, and for such beautiful Rose gardens as have never yet been 

 made. 



To attempt to describe the best uses of all the beautiful Garden Roses 

 would need the space of a book ; on the occasion of this Conference it 

 may suffice just to draw attention to the great importance of this new 

 development of Rose-growing in its relation to the newly-arisen desire for 

 the wider comprehension and interpretation of Rose beauty. 



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