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thing be more charming than the wild thorns, wild 
crabs, wild roses, dogwoods, etc., etc., that are found 
growing wild along many country roads ? 
One day in driving through the “wild park” that is 
being developed by O. C. Simonds out at Cherry Hills, 
the beautiful farm of H. N. Higinbotham, near Joliet, 
we came upon his men engaged in setting out a colony 
of May apples along the borders of the road as it 
passed through the lowland adjacent to Hickory Creek. 
Just the thing one would expect to find in such a loca- 
tion, — the appropriate thing and the beautiful thing, 
because appropriate. One would have to look for a long 
time before finding a colony of May apples in a made 
park no matter how fitting they might be to available 
situations. Every one who has a piece of native woods 
to be transformed into a park, would do well to take a 
long and a strong look at the Cherry Hill park wood- 
land. It is called the Forest of Arden, and richly de- 
serves its name. 
Frances Copley Seavey. 
THe Free Use of Roses 
The many new kinds and classes of roses that have 
been lately introduced have made it possible to use 
these beautiful flowers in a great variety of ways. 
People who delight in roses have often been content 
with beds of Teas and Hybrids, grown largely for the 
sake of cut flowers, rather than for the beauty of the 
bushes themselves, or with a view to making artistic 
garden-pictures of their pleasure grounds. But now, 
with the introduction of so many climbing, rambling, 
scrambling, and trailing sorts of roses, there is no plant 
that is more important for its many possibilities in the 
decoration of our gardens, and none that can be used 
in so many beautiful ways. 
Take, for instance, the Rugosa rose and its hybrids. 
These are all of them especially well adapted for in- 
troduction into our shrubberies. Most of them spread 
rapidly, and soon form fine clumps. They give an 
abundance of bloom throughout the season, the foliage 
is handsome, healthy, and takes on fine coloring in the 
Fall ; and the fruits are almost as ornamental as the 
flowers. One of the finest of the new Rugosa hybrids 
is called Conrad T. Meyer, and is said to be a cross 
between R. rugosa and Gloire de Dijon. The flowers 
are large and of a clear silvery rose. It is of vigorous 
growth and is said to remarkably hardy. In that case 
it ought to be a very valuable rose. Other good vari- 
eties are Blanc Double de Coubert and Mme. G. Bru- 
ant, both with white flowers. None of these roses are 
suitable for beds of Teas and Hybrid teas, or for mix- 
ing with the so-called Hybrid Remontants, as they are 
of too vigorous growth for the rose garden proper. 
In clumps by themselves, or in shrubberies they are in 
their proper place. 
For the margins of streams, for use in half-shaded 
places, and along walks in the wilder parts of the 
grounds, or the wild garden, no plants are more 
charming than the Sweetbrier and its lovely hybrids, 
lately introduced by that skillful amateur rosarian. 
Lord Penzance. These can also be introduced into 
shrubberies, and some of them are of vigorous growth 
and can be trained to arch over a foot-path by the 
simple process of planting one on each side of a nar- 
row walk, and tying the tops together at the height of 
six or seven feet. We have made several arches here 
in this manner, and find these hybrids healthy and 
beautiful. While they bloom but once, the foliage with 
its aromatic fragrance makes them attractive at all 
times. They are also pretty in fruit. Green Mantle, 
Lord and Lady Penzance, Brenda, Minna, and Anne 
of Gierstein are among the most attractive of these 
that we have tried, but all of them that we have seen 
are beautiful and desirable where room can be afforded 
them. 
The Prairie Rose, Rosa setigera, is exceedingly use- 
ful for parks and wild gardens. It forms a charming 
fountain of green, as its habit is to grow erect for three 
or four feet, and then to arch over until its branches 
touch the ground. It is perhaps seen to better ad- 
vantage, however, if given the support of a group of 
evergreens, or a pile or brush, or a fallen log or stump 
to scramble over. Here we plant it in a copse of young 
cedar bushes, and carpet the ground under the bushes 
with some of the Wichuraiana hybrids, most of which 
Idoom at the same time. A rough bank can be made 
a beautiful object by covering it with these Wichurai- 
ana hybrids, planting them at the top so that they can 
trail down the sides of the bank. In this way we have 
lately converted an ugly clay bank that skirts the side 
of a carriage drive into a very pretty picture. In 
planting the roses large holes were dug near the top 
of the bank, but not on the summit, as that is used as 
a foot-path. These holes were made two feet deep and 
eighteen inches in diameter, and filled in with a rich 
compost of good garden loam and cow manure. In 
this compost the roses have grown well, sending long 
shoots down the sides of the bank. The Pink Roamer, 
the Gardenia, Jersey Beauty, Manda’s Triumph, the 
type Wichuraiana, and Mrs. Lovett are the kinds that 
we have used to cover this bank, but there are many 
other fine hybrids of recent introduction well adapted 
for such purposes, as well as for rock work, arches, 
pergolas and trellises. 
For such uses, and for walls and verandas there 
is an increasing number of rambling and climbing 
roses ; but only to enumerate and describe the half of 
them would make this article far too long. At some 
future time we will be glad to give our experience with 
some of the best of these. Danske Dandridge. 
