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sary, most clay soils may be rendered capable of gi'owing roses by the appli- 

 cation of chalk, lime, sand, or other ameliorator. To apply these, level the 

 roughened surface of the land, and apply a top-dressing sufficient for the 

 pm*pose, and trench the ground two or three spades deep according to its 

 requirements, thoroughly incorporating the manure in doing so. When 

 finished, the station for the roses should be marked and dug out. and remain 

 open till the time of planting. 



1864. With regard to the design, it is to be observed that in a well-arranged 

 garden, the rosery should not be put obtrusively forward in the general design, 

 but should be rather secluded than otherwise ; a parallelogram of a hundred 

 feet by a hundred and fifty, cleared out of an extensive shrubbery, and tho- 

 roughly drained, provided it be not too much inclosed, but open to the 

 south-west or south-east, would form a suitable site for such a rose-garden, as 

 that laid out by Mr. Williams, in Mr. Warnei-'s garden at Hoddesden, of 

 which we give a view at the head of this chapter. In this rose-garden 

 the beds form segments of circles ; the four centres form obtuse triangles, 

 all rising to a centre under the pavilion, so that the spectator looks down 

 on the walks and surrounding beds from this eminence. Four central paths 

 lead to this pavilion, which is supported by twelve iron pillars 7 feet 3 inches 

 high, tied together, and forming pointed arches of the same material. A 

 central pillar to which iron rods converge from the crown of each arch ; the 

 whole being tied together and covered with climbing roses from the roof, 



1865. Another design for a rose-garden was designed by Mr. Hei-man 

 Seitz, of Munich, when he was employed at Chatsworth some years ago, and 

 published in the Gardener's Magazine of Botany. He proposed surrounding 

 the rosery by a shrubbery of common evergreens, with an approach from the 

 pleasure-grounds not very far from the mansion, through winding paths lined 

 with American shinibs ; the shrubbery being required to give shelter to the 

 more tender roses. He proposed having a central basin of pure translucent 

 water for gold-fish and choice aquatics, with fountain and vase in the centre ; 

 the basin being embowered in climbing roses, twining round the pillars and 

 ■converging rods of a light skeleton iron pavilion of an octagon form. The 

 posts of this pavilion were to rise outside a circular gravel-walk. Eight 

 ■obtuse-angled beds, the broad ends rounded off on the outside, abut on, and 

 define this circular walk, the larger ones running longitudinally with the 

 length of the ground, and forming a large oval, 50 feet by 70, laid out in 

 gravel round these beds. Twelve gravel-paths run to each corner ^of the 

 garden, converging at several angles, and forming angular-shaped beds, while 

 a colonnade nine feet high, covering a gravel-ipath eight feet wide, surrounds 

 the garden, the ireillage being of light iron-work, corresponding with the" 

 pavilion, and festooned with climbing roses. This colonnade descends, in a 

 .sloping grassy bank, from two to three feet deep, into the rose-garden, which is 

 thus sunk, permitting a charming view of the rose-garden from the elevation 

 of the raised colonnade. The beds are to be furnished with masses of dwarf 

 roses in the centre, surrounded with a series of grass lawns, standards being 



