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can. We hardly know a more discouraging fact connected 

 with, collections of roses, than the common result of there 

 being at no time, but a month of summer, haK a dozen to be 

 seen in flower ; yet we find people sending for twenty or fifty 

 varieties of this beautiful flower, instead of haK a dozen each 

 of those always in bloom — for there is hardly anything more 

 ugly than a rose out of bloom,— neither the foHage nor the 

 habit is desirable. We would rather see fifty each of Noisette 

 Fellenburg, the Crimson China, and the pale one, Madame 

 Hardy, Mrs. Bosanquet, and two or three others that are always 

 in flower, than the best collections in the world. The garden 

 would always be striking, and the rosery always beautiful, 

 though there were no other divefsity than would be afforded 

 by the few that are growing and blooming two-thirds of the 

 summer. 



Hills and Mounds. — These features are sad blots unless 

 very judiciously placed, or, if on the spot abeady, very well 

 appropriated. Still they are wanted for the deposit of the 

 soil taken from the excavations, if there be any ornamental 

 water, and as a receptacle for the accumulated rubbish that 

 cannot be used elsewhere. ;N"atural mounds may be consider- 

 ably improved, but all must depend on their extent. There 

 are many such mounds that only require planting, and some 

 object among the trees to excite attention, and give efiect. 

 But in forming a mound, there must be an easy, graceful rise, 

 corresponding with a hollow forming part of the same outline ; 

 and, as has well been observed by old writers, lands under the 

 plough for many years may be found with the hollows greatly 

 changed by filling up, and the mounds lowered by the loss of 

 what has been in the course of time ploughed into the 

 hollows. The greatest care ^YiB. be required in this nice opera- 

 tion, which also involves large cost of labour. Let there be no 

 attempt at a mound that appears insignificant. The impression 

 that a lot of earth has been left that should have been cleared 

 away, is very awkward. There must be no abrupt rising from 

 a flat surface, as is very often the case in manufactured 

 mounds, as they are called in the dignifying language of 

 guide-books. Advantage must be taken of all that nature 

 has done ; and it may frequently be improved by additions 

 and changes ; that is, by raising it in one place with all the 

 spare soil, and what may be taken from other parts. 



Temples, Euins, Antiquities. — The top of a mound of 



