THE ROSE GARDEN. 



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There is a terrace of considerable length leading to the Rosarium. To the left 

 of the terrace is an aviary, on a lawn studded with ornamental trees, and groups 

 of plants of various kinds arranged in fancy beds. On the right is a wall of 

 moderate height, covered with Climbing Roses, in front of which are also beds 

 filled with Geraniums, Verbenas, and other summer and autumn flowering plants. 

 On the top of the wall arches have been built, and the Roses are trained up to 

 partly cover them. At the drop of the arches narrow trellises are fixed at a dis- 

 tance of about one foot from the wall, and are covered with the Sweet-scented 

 Clematis (Clematis flammula), the effect of which is very good. The Climbing 

 Roses, which are of various kinds, are chiefly budded on the old Noisette. One 

 plant, which attracted particular attention, was the Fulgens (Hybrid Chinese), 

 whose growth was extraordinary ; and there was also a plant of Franklin (Hybrid 

 Bourbon), which Mr. Fuller, who is gardener there, informed me is budded on 

 the White Banksia, and from which circumstance it appeared to lose none of its 

 known character for robustness. Proceeding forwards, we pass, by a gently 

 deviating path, through a Dahlia Garden and a Verbena Garden, and enter the 

 Rosarium, of which it is more particularly our business to speak. 



Annexed (No. 3) is a view of the Rosarium, which, with the description we are 



N°. 3. 



about to offer, will, we trust, convey to our readers a clear idea of its construction. 

 We admit that it is simple in the extreme, but think none will condemn it on that 

 account. Its dimensions are, length, 85 yards ; width, 27 yards. The number 

 of plants contained in it is about 2200, 1000 of which are Autumnals. It lies open 

 to the south-west. It is fenced in on the east by a wall, on which fruit-trees are 

 planted ; and to the west is a laurel-hedge, which forms a capital shelter and back- 

 ground, although not allowed to grow to a sufficient height to injure the Roses by 

 shade or otherwise. 



The ground between the wall on the east and the laurel-hedge on the west is 

 formed into five beds. The first three of which we shall make mention contain 

 Summer Roses only, many of which are large and handsome specimens. At the 

 back of the bed, nearest the wall marked 1, is a row of iron stakes, placed 

 about six feet apart, and standing five or six feet out of the ground, at about three 

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