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A Rose Garden Planting Scheme 



THE LAKELAND NURSERIES, 

 WINDERMERE. 



The Lakeland Nurseries (orig-inally the firm of 

 Mavvson Brothers) is one of the few firms which in- 

 cludes really good class design along with the supply 

 of hardy-grown Roses, Trees, Shrubs, Herbaceous 

 Plants, Alpines, Hardy Ferns, Aquatics, etc. 



The present managers of the firm have been 

 trained in garden designing and landscape construc- 

 tion by Thos. H. Mawson, the author of '* The Art 

 and Craft of Garden Making," and the well-known 

 lecturer on landscape design at the Liverpool Univer- 

 sity ; and since taking over this firm have been re- 

 sponsible for many excellent garden schemes through- 

 out the country. 



In our illustration we show a garden that has been 

 designed as a terminal feature centring on the house 

 across a lawn and terrace. 



Broad semi-circular spreading steps lead from the 

 lawn to the Rose garden, which radiates from tjie 

 centre of these steps and leads to a central pool backed 

 by a pergola, through which a vista is obtained of a 

 grass glade, ending in a seat backed by a heavy block 

 of Yew in front of a plantation composed of Pines 

 and flowering trees. The garden itself* is boardered by 

 a box hedge, which defines without enclosing too 

 heavily, and in which are recesses for figures on the 

 main axial lines of the garden. This hedge is backed 

 by plantations of flowering shrubs, including Ribes, 

 Philadelphus, Lilac and Viburnum, which will give 

 colour and scent before the Roses are in perfection, 

 together with Buddleia and Hydrangea to harmonise 

 and contrast with the Roses in summer and autumn. 



Then shrubberies flank the glade leading towards 

 the seat, but here large breaks of Rugosa Roses and 

 Penzance Briars are introduced between clumps of 

 Berberis and Broom ; the whole fringed towards the 



