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their weeping- stanaards will lend to the general effect, 

 and these beds, reading from the right-hand top 

 corner, we will number 9, 10, 11 and 12. The arbours 

 at each end we will call 13 and 14, and the Pergolas 

 16 and 17. The following planting scheme will give 

 an effect hard to excel. 



Bed No. I. — Lady Hillingdon or Lady Roberts, 

 with standards or half-standards of either variety. 



Bed No. 2. — Red Letter Day or K. of K.^ with 

 standards or half-standards of these varieties. 



Bed No. 3. — Mme. Jules Bouche or Mrs. Herbert 

 Stevens, with standards or half-standards. 



Bed No. 4. — Mme. A. Chatenay or Caroline Test- 

 out, with standards or half-standards. 



Bed No. 5. — Golden Emblem, with standards or 

 half-standards of this variety. 



Bed No, 6. — C. V. Hawortfi or Augustus Hart- 

 mann, with standards or half-standards. 



Bed No. 7. — Clarice Goodacre or Ophelia, with 

 standards or half-standards of these varieties. 



Bed No. 8.— Mrs. Alfred West or Mrs. B. J. 

 U'alker, with standards of these varieties. 



Bed No. 9. — Weeping Standard Gardenia in 

 centre, with dwarf golden Emblem or Perle d'Or. 



Bed No. ID. — W^eeping Standard Minnehaha in 

 centre, with Orleans as a dwarf. 



Bed No. II. — Weeping Standard Aviateur Bleriot 

 or Leontine Gervais in centre, with dwarfs of Los 

 Angeles or Presicpnt Boucbe or Pprle d'Or. 



Bed No. 12. — Weeping Standard Excelsa in 

 centre, with dwarf Hugh Dickson or Jessie. 



Bed No. 13. — Rose arbour of Excelsa or 

 Coronation 



Bed No. 14. — Rose arbour of Snowffake or Alberic 

 Barbier. 



Bed 16 & 17. — Pergola of Yvonne. 



The surjound of the Rose garden should be planted 

 with Austrian Yellow or Austrian Copper, mixed with- 

 Blanc Double de Coubert to form a low hedge. 



