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capabilities are of the greatest value. In all cases the artificial provision 

 for the ilose should be decidedly subservient and unobtrusive : the 

 garden should be adapted to the flowers more than the flowers to 

 the garden — the reverse of the usual intent in designing the more 

 positively artificial adjuncts to a mansion. The extent to which such 

 arrangement is admissible, its nature and adaptation, must specially 

 be governed by local circumstances, each of which may require to 

 exercise a governance over the design. But the nearest approach to 

 our beau ideal of what a Rosary should be, where it may be free and 

 wild, is pleasingly described by the author of the popular American work 

 "Queechy." 



The accompanying design was made for a gentleman's garden in 

 Hertfordshire. The house stands on an elevated position, with a large 

 terrace in front, and upon one of the sides is a shrubbery lawn sloping 

 towards a valley which flanks the garden. The plant houses are 

 gathered together about the end of the lawn in a line with the mansion, 

 and are partially concealed, and at the same time connected with the 

 terrace and shrubbery by means of an iron arcade covered with Roses 

 and other hardy creepers. About the houses are several rectangular 

 spaces, and two of those most seen from the terrace, and coming into 

 view between it and the distant country, are made use of as Rosaries, 

 in one of which the accompanying pattern is used. The poles with 

 festoons, one remove beyond the iron arcade, are specially introduced to 

 moderate somewhat the rather too striking effect of one of the plant 

 houses, and to break the line of the arcade. Its immediate connection 

 with the plant structures points out the justness of having an arrange- 

 ment of plan, consisting principally of straight lines. In considering 

 the size of the beds regard is had to convenience in getting round and 

 about them for the purpose of cutting the flowers, as the position it 

 occupies, close to the house, but out of that part of the garden from 

 which it would not be the general custom to cut flowers for decorative 

 purposes, renders it easy of access both to the lady and her gardener. 



The small number of standard Roses introduced may be a matter 

 of surprise, but it is obvious that in the space shown it would not be 

 possible to have many more without crowding, unless the poles and 

 chains were dispensed with. As a general rule I am averse to tall 

 standard Roses. This, however, does not apply to the weeping 

 varieties ; of these the stems can scarcely be too high if they are 

 appropriately situated, excepting where the entire garden can be looked 

 down upon, as the majority of the varieties show their flowers best 

 when so situated. With the exception of the standards indicated, the 

 beds are filled with dwarf Roses, the strongest shoots of which being 

 regularly pegged or layed down, the appearance is kept more uniform 

 than is generally the case with a Rose garden. The standards are 

 all autumn bloomers, and the dwarf varieties consist for the most part 

 of kinds having the same property, but so distributed as to balance in 

 the effect. 



With regard to the edging for the beds of Rosaries on gravel, I 

 cannot generally feel pleased with Box ; its fitness in a flower garden 

 is for the nicely defined lines and curves of an elaborate pattern, where 



