38 THE ROSE GARDEN. 



feet from the wall. Against these, Climbing Roses are placed ; some on their 

 own roots, which are trained up from the ground ; others, which are the kinds of 

 rambling growth, are budded on tall stems. Some of the branches of the latter 

 are trained on chains running from stake to stake, with a slight curve, forming 

 festoons of Roses ; while the chief portion are allowed to rise and form a head 

 above the iron stake. About midway in the row, between each of these climbers, 

 a dwarf is planted, and thus the back row is formed. In front of it are three rows, 

 which gradually slope towards the path in front. The plants on stems are planted 

 about four feet apart in the row, and dwarfs are freely interspersed, which does 

 away with the disagreeable appearance that is often presented to view in beds of 

 Standard Roses only, by the exposure of a broad surface of bare ground. As we 

 look at the Roses from the walks in front, we discover that they are not planted 

 in straight lines, but transversely, and the front row is formed with complete 

 dwarfs. 



The next bed (No. 2) is also a parallelogram, containing six rows of plants. 

 There are two rows in the centre, on stems of about equal height ; from either 

 side of which there are two rows, the one under the other, sloping gradually 

 towards the paths. The order of planting is the same here as in No. 1 ; but this 

 bed has two fronts, the one facing the east, the other the west. 



In No. 3 there are three rows of plants, sloping from the back to the walk, as 

 before. Behind these is a light wire fence, covered with various climbing plants, 

 which separates the Summer kinds from the Autumnals. 



No. 4 is planted entirely with Autumnals. It is supported behind with the 

 wire fence just mentioned, which divides the gardens, and in front is a serpentine 

 walk. In the narrowest part of this bed there are three rows of plants, in the 

 deepest five, the whole sloping from the wire fence behind towards the walk in 

 front. The order of planting here is the same as before. Let one feature, how- 

 ever, be noted : the Autumnal Roses, being of smaller growth than the Summer 

 kinds, they are planted at lesser distances. Here and there, too, a large Standard, 

 or a Pillar Rose, is placed at the curves of the bed, which breaks the uniformity 

 of appearance, which, when the Rosarium is on a grand scale, might otherwise 

 become tiresome. 



No. 5, which is the last bed, is that in front of the laurel-hedge on the other 

 side of the serpentine walk. There are six plants in the deepest part of this bed, 

 and four in the narrowest. The order of planting is as before. 



At the north end of the Rosarium, opposite to bed No. 2, is a rustic temple, 

 raised considerably above the level of the ground, and covered with various 

 creeping plants. The front of the raised ground on which it is built is planted 

 with Kalmias and Rhododendrons, forming a bank sloping to the level of the 

 Rose beds. From this temple a fine view of the garden is obtained, and it was 

 from here our sketch was taken. Looking down upon the Roses, we see white, 

 purple, crimson, yellow, with various intermediate tints, mingled together in gay 



