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A Rose Garden Planting Scheme 



JAMES CARTER c\: CO. 



During thirty years of garden design and plan- 

 ning, Messrs. James Carter and Co., of Raynes Park, 

 S.\A'., have carried out many contracts for Rose gar- 

 dens over the whole of the United Kingdom and 

 France. 



The accompanying plan is quite a simple and 

 pretty arrangement. 



The general lay-out is that of a sunken garden, 

 bounded at the ends by a pergola, surrounding two 

 lily pools on the upper level, these being filled by 

 means of a fountain. 



The paths are all of York stone paving, and 

 where these meet in the centre of the garden a posi- 

 tion is afforded for the introduction of a stone sundial. 



The steps at each side of the lower pools and at 

 the entrance to the garden should be of the same stone 

 as the paths, but in whole slabs, to extend the full dis- 

 tance across. 



A dry retaining wall will be necessary in front of 

 the surrounding border, and the height of this will, of 

 course, be decided by the depth to which it is desired 

 to sink the lower portion of garden. 



Coming to the subject of planting, The general 

 idea here is to keep all the lower borders to the reds and 

 pinks, those surrounding the upper pools to the whites 

 and yellows, and the long border for mixed Roses of 

 the same tone of colour. 



The pergola should be furnished with what is un- 

 doubtedly one of the best scarlet Roses in commerce, 

 " Paul's Scarlet Climber." 



In four beds that form a square we should plant 

 what is perhaps the finest of all garden Roses, 

 " General McArthur. " In an opposite set of four beds 

 we suggest ** Hugh Dickson." 



Into other four beds we would place that lovely 

 crimson-scarlet Rose, " Richmond," one of the most 

 showy and sweet-smelling among this colour; and the 



