THE "ZOO" ROSERY

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 51, 24 November 1919, Page 5

THE "ZOO" ROSERY

NOW IN ITS GLORY. Although tho fitormy winds have blown i with moro or less violence throughout the past month, and many gardens have suffered in consenuencp, the well-shelter-ed rosery at the ""Zoo" is simply a> riot of beautiful blooms of the choicest varieties of roses, and no one who visits the perfumed vale during thesp summer days can fail to be struck with the tremendous improvement wjvph hns lx?en effcetrd in whot was a cniin)e of years a bit of neglected woodlr.nd. Tlip land hns proved to be pxictly MiifaMe for rose , Rrowing, a lisht clny, which pfntlinrsmoie- | tun from the surrnunclinjr hillfiides nil ' the year- round, and yet is open to tho sun. According to the ens- i todinn (irr.. J. LangTidge). nothing fails' to grow in this fnyo'ired sjiot Last , year's cutting* have done remarkably j well alon? the eastern bank, only clenred of Mine bic; piuo trees a year ngo, whern | it was not anticipated tW such would be the case until the soil wns given a spell, after being drained for years by the far-epreading roots of the bis: trees. A big rustic breakwind has been built byMr. Lanjjridcp at the northern end of the l rospry, which hns already become firmly knitted together with crimson ramblers, just about to burst into blown. During this year, too,. Ihp rosery paths have been neatly asphalted. A visit tn the roscry at the present time is wpll worth ivbilp by any interested in the exnimite variety in form and colour of England's national flower.