GOOD WET WEATHER ROSES.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 26, 28 December 1910, Page 41

GOOD WET WEATHER ROSES.

SUGGESTIONS FROM OVERSEAS. ' Mrs- Mary L. Allan writes to us from pioverbank, Helensburgh, N.R, as follows:— ■ In perusing the list of the above in your number of August 10th, I was greatly struck by the fact that the pink rose Dean Hole is given as one ©f the varieties that will do well in a Wet summer. Here, on the West Coast of Scotland, a district famed for the beauty of the roses it produces, the universal verdict is that Dean Hole is one of the worst of wet weather roses. Fifty per cent of the buds simply rot away, and the remainder refuse to unfold. The colour in a wet season is in all cases poor. Given fine weather, Dean Hole is in every respect satisfactory. EDGINGS. It is incontestable that box edgings harbour slugs. They are also unpleasang by reason of their dullness. How much more beautiful are the long, massed lines of violas which yield a profusion of bloom throughout an entire season, provided only that the withered blossoms are removed. Violas are economical, too, since cuttings may be taken -from the parent plant with advantage to it. A capital edging may be made by utilising large pieces of stone of unequal size. A portion of these is then made secure in the earth at the edge ©f the path, the other higher portion supporting the earth of the raised (bed «r border. finch an edging may be turned into a most fascinating rock garden, all manner of dainty Alpines being planted in the crevices or behind the stones, so ns to form carpct-liko growths. In this way tl»e bare stones arc Boon ablaze with jiving gems. Rock-cdg-ang, also, makes capital foundation for such things ns the double Arabis, Myosotis, the Gold Dust Alyssum, and fur the many varieties of little rock-roses which give such a bounteous display of Jiloom. Alpine phloxes, too, nre charmng little subjects. Here and there a 4^nmp of some upright plant lends a

pleasant variety, though Buch should not be permitted to encroach upon the miniature plants, but should be kept in subjection.

I The “Graphic” finds its way into many places; and we are pleased to hear from our correspondent in Rorrnie Scotland, and gladly find space for her paragraphs.—Veronica.] .... ....