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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 227 id, 1900. 
T>osks for Garden Decoration.* —During 
L the past year conferences were held at 
Salisbury and Birmingham by the National 
Rose Society, on the occasion of their 
shows at those places, and on each occasion 
the subject for discussion was a paper by 
M;ss Jekyll, V.M.H., entitled “ Suggestions 
for the Decorative Use of some Garden 
Roses.” Although the Roses used for 
garden decoration form the oldest section 
to which the society now gives considerable 
attention, there was till recently some 
danger that their claims to distinction would 
ultimately come to be ignored owing to the 
I great popularity to which hybrid perpetuals 
and Teas, and still more recently hybrid 
Teas had attained. We remember their 
sad plight in 1887 when Roses of all kinds 
used for exhibition presented a sorry 
spectacle before the day was half over, but 
particularly the garden Roses, owing to 
their naturally fragile character. Since that 
time, however, the National Rose Society 
has consistently and persistently encouraged 
their culture and exhibition, with the result 
that the section constitutes one of the finest 
features of the shows held annually by the 
society. This demonstrates that a beauti¬ 
ful and useful section, though liable to be 
eclipsed and driven into obscurity by the 
rising fame of some other type, generally 
regarded as pecu iarly fitted for exhibition, 
* Report of the Conferences held by »fe 
Na’ional Rose Siciety in rg;o, on R ses for Garden 
Decoration. (Copyright.) 
may be brought into special prominence by 
encouraging the same to the extent of its 
merits. The National Chrysanthemun 
Society might take this fact into their con¬ 
sideration in order to resuscitate the waning 
glories of some of the beautiful though 
small-flowered sections of their own special 
favourite ; and we have reason to believe 
that more than one of their members are 
actuated with intentions of that kind. 
Garden Roses are now legion, thanks to 
the encouragement that has re-discovered 
old species and varieties, and created new 
forms. To deal with them in their entirety, 
as the subject matter of a single paper of 
limited scope, would be a difficult, if not 
impossible task, so that Miss Jekyll 
approaches it in the proper spirit when she 
attempts to deal with only a few coming 
under her special province of observation. 
She says that one often sees in gardens, 
where money is no object, some of the 
‘‘best possible Roses planted apparently 
without thought or knowledge.” Just so ; 
it is precisely similar to the ordering of a 
library—so many hundred pounds’ worth of 
each of the various ’ologies—by one who 
has nc special liking for any particular book, 
simply because he has no familiarity with it 
or does not know it, perhaps, inside the 
bindings. All Roses are beautiful, but 
there are positions in which many of them 
would be inappropriate if allowed to grow 
in a natural way and ramble at their own 
sweet will; but 00 many private estates 
there are positions which could be beauti¬ 
fied in a manner one could scarcely dream 
of until the work had been accomplished 
by some careful and intelligent observer 
and worker upon the spot, and who has a 
clear conception or knowledge of the sub¬ 
jects he is handling. Miss Jekyll advocates 
a more liberal use of the ratnbler type of 
Roses such as the Ayrshire and semper- 
virens types with the polyanthas and Musk 
Roses. The Himalayan Rosa brunoniana 
is selected to typify the latter section ; but 
R. Brunonis, of Wallich, is regarded as 
synonymous with R. moschata at Kew. A 
large rambling bu-h of it in a hedge by the 
ferneries has been a feature of that part of 
the gardens for many years past when laden 
with its clouds of large creamy white, 
svyeet-scented blossoms. 
In the kitchen garden, where hybrid per¬ 
petuals are often freely planted round the 
borders in private establishments, Roses of 
the rambling or climbing type would be 
altogether inappropriate and out of keeping 
with the straight walks and neatly trimmed 
subjects in the borders, unless in the case 
of climbers that would conform to the trim 
character of the other occupants of the 
ground. Miss Jekyll evidently thoroughly 
recognises this fact, for she advocates the 
use of such Roses on the outskirts of the 
garden where the latter joins the rougher 
ground or well established shrubbery. She 
