Issue largely devoted to roses _ wide ranging and important articles by Graham Stuart Thomas and Jane Taylor (England), Junyu Chen (China), M. S. Viraraghavan (India), William Grant (California), Odile Masquelier and Louisa Jones (France), Michael Hayward (Saudi Arabia) Anna McKane Joseph Pemberton and roses. Also Liz Robinson s Snippets David Wheeler interview with garden artist, Yvonne Skargon A. T. Johnson The Meaning of Gardens Jane Sterndale Bennett her Hampshire garden on chalk in summer Philippa Rakusen Harlow Carr and Ling Beeches in summer Timothy Ribbesford Essayist in the Garden Peter Parker Pondersƒ Book reviews by John Akeroyd, Michael Jefferson Brown, Liz Robinson and Dawn MacLeod.