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GARDENING IN THE SOUTHWEST 
bushes closest to the showy brilliance of the orange Polyanthas, Golden 
Salmon and Gloria Mundi . 
For the full length of two sides of the garden there is a six-foot border 
planted in shrub Roses, Polyanthas and the single varieties with a back¬ 
ground of latticed fence supporting Climbers. This fence may extend across 
the back line of the garden also if the arbor is on the edge of the property. 
Across the front of the garden are tall posts connected by chains or 
rope-swags, over which the Climbing Roses planted at the posts are trained. 
At the base of these festoons there is a low border of Polyanthas, the whole 
of this front treatment being designed to give an unobstructed view of 
the garden. 
The shrub border may be omitted where there is less space or may be 
planted out in perennials and shrubs other than Rose, but its exclusion 
would mean a loss of many lovely varieties. 
The summer-house also might be omitted, but it would be a pity, for 
it is with a probable sigh of relief from all concerned that after such a 
pilgrimage through countless Roses we should come at last to a place of 
rest. The French call such an arbor a "Gloriette” and what name could be 
more fitting when it is canopied with Roses. 
A Rose garden is not just a place to look at, but a place to live in. 
And roofed against the uninterrupted sunlight that the Rose so loves, this 
summer-house offers a needed spot to sit in peace and shade and enjoy the 
fruit of one’s labors. 
We may say "sit in peace”, but what Rose-lover ever really views with 
a peaceful eye the landscape of his making? Given the slightest excuse 
"To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things 
entire 
Would not we shatter it to bits — 
and then 
Remould it nearer to the Heart’s Desire?” 
List of Roses in Garden Sketch 
The list of Rose varieties contained in the accompanying garden sketch 
is by no means to be considered as including all the varieties that should, 
or might, be grown in the Southwest. It is designed for the sole purpose 
of offering some slight help to the amateur who, in the maze of vast and 
varied material the modern Rose world presents, may feel lost without a 
chart of some tried and true Rose friends he may count on to see him 
safely through. 
