A Rose Paradise Nothing more gorgeous has ever been seen
in a London garden than the roses in the old Botanic Gardens in The Regent's Park. The place is an education for every gardener, largely because he can tell, that most important of all points, which roses are the best " doers," a great word and thing in the craft of horticulture. How much money and time have been wasted on weaklings with some inherent defect behind their attractive appearance ? Juliet is one example of scores. You may see in The Regent's Park what the Victorians called the best hundred ; and some of the very best such as Mrs. Henry Morse, Betty Uprichard and Etoile de Hollande are massed. The rose has advanced a very definite stride or two within the last few years, not so much in the improvement of the bedding rose as in the extension of the use of the rose. The Poulsen roses (of which the later Karen was gorgeously exhibited last week) make general decorative panels, so to say, beyond any old polyanthus. Pillar roses have not only a crowded hour of glory : they have double flowers of a perpetual habit. Easleas Golden Rambler brought out two years ago (of which The Gardeners' Chronicle has recently published a coloured picture) is a magnificent example. Personally I have a great admiration for the climbing Golden Ophelia. She is almost as gracious among the doubles as the incomparable Mermaid among the singles. Several very lovely yellows have been produced. Klondyke, which is a sport from the popular Lady Forteviot, possesses a golden gloss very rare among roses. The yellow rose (such as Sir Henry Seagrave or Mabel Morse) is enjoying a fashion among hybridizers comparable with the peach-like blossom, as seen in "Ecstasy," " Spring- time " or " Loveliness," among sweet peas.
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