MOEE VARIED USE ' OF ROSES IN G ARDENS. 
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MORE VARIED USE OF ROSES IN GARDENS. 
By Mr. George Paul, V.M.H. 
[July 3, 1900.] 
Bedding, Hedge, and Pillak Roses. 
In the earlier years of the just finishing century, Roses took their places in 
gardens, in many and more varied ways than now. There Avere the dwarfs, 
on own roots— mostly kinds flowering only once in the summer (the 
Chinas and some very few Teas alone giving autumnal flowers)^ — Pillar 
Roses of the summer flowering kinds, and a few of the Ayrshires, hybrids 
of our wild field Rose, Rosa arvensis, on arches. Standards were a later 
introduction after the peace of 1815. 
Later, up to a few years ago, formal Rose gardens of standards and 
dwarfs became the vogue, or Standards dotted on small round beds on 
lawns. A few gardens, such as Mrs. Bosanquet's, had pillars with chains 
between the posts to form a kind of margin to the garden. 
It is in the past eight or nine years that some of us who have had the 
planning of Rose gardens have essayed to use Roses in many more varied 
ways ; and it is their use for some of these purposes of which I have been 
asked to speak to-day. 
Roses for bedding. 
Roses for hedges (and arches, pergolas, &c.). 
Roses as pillars and pyramids. 
Roses for Bedding. 
The essential points required in bedding Roses are, I take it, those 
which render any other kind of plant what is called a bedding plant, viz. 
dwarf habit, freedom, and continuity of flowering, marked vividness 
or clear distinction in colour. 
Many Roses have these points, with what other bedding plants lack, 
hardiness and the property of standing from year to year without renewal ; 
hence I claim for Roses to be placed amongst the best of our bedding 
plants. Take the Chinas. I am writing this early in June at my cottage 
in Epping Forest. There is a bed of crimson China visible from the 
window ; it is nearly in full bloom ; and a bed behind it, making a back- 
ground, of the common blush China is quite in flower. Passing last 
autumn a garden in Enfield, the last week in October I stopped to consider 
what was the bed of bright crimson on the lawn. It was a mass of 
crimson China Rose, in flower from early June until November. 
Pelargoniums were past ; Calceolarias had been burnt up by last season's 
more than ordinary bright English sunlight ; but the crimson China 
Rose was the first and last from early summer to bloom in our gardens. 
Well, in late years the Chinas have been reinforced by Guillot, of 
Lyons, with new colours. 
* Laurette Messimy,' a yellow with a rose t- hading crossed with the I'eas, 
but fairly hardy. Its progeny, ' Mad. E. Resal,' with an orange instead 
of a yellow shading, slightly more delicate, needing a warm spot. Then 
