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beautiful and certainly much more in character. Avenues and rows of 

 standards may, however, be allowed in a formal Rosarium, which is a scene by 

 itself : this is preferable to any irregular form, and may be planned something 

 hke those we designed for Mr. Paul's " Rose garden ;" or in the manner 

 shown in the General Plan for a palace or mansion grounds ; or the one we 

 arranged in the Queen's Park, Manchester. Provision must also be made for 

 climbing roses. The readiest plan is to fix poles in the ground here and 

 there, or place five, six, or more, so as to form a circle of three or four feet 

 in diameter, and let them all meet at the top. Cones of iron or wood trellis, 

 or a circular arcade, may be formed in the centre of the Rosary, over a walk, 

 for some of the most interesting varieties of pillar roses, and the enclosure 

 serve as a pheasantry. 



The Annual Garden. 

 The Annual Garden is a plot of ground set apart for the growth of 

 annual flowers, the varieties of which are numerous, and many of them very 

 beautiful. The plants should be selected for their harmony of colour and 

 size, and should be set, or sown, in patches of from three to five of each kind. 

 They would then present a very gay and interesting appearance in their 

 proper season, which might, in fact, be greatly prolonged by plants or seeds 

 in successional growths. 



The Mass, or Group Garden. 

 The prevailing practice of growing certain kinds of flowers in groups 

 or masses, seems to demand that there should be, in grounds of suffi- 

 cient extent, a compartment or division in the Flower Garden for this 

 purpose, which I have ventured to term Mass or Group Garden. For 

 instance, different varieties of verbenas, petunias, fuchsias, salvias, calceolarias, 

 geraniums, and mimuhi, are amongst the kinds used for that purpose. 

 Whilst we admire this fashion, we must guard against its predominance over 

 the growth of the various and beautiful perennial flowers. I think that 

 the beds for this kind of garden should seldom be large, and, perhaps, they 

 should be most generally round, but of various dimensions, none exceeding 

 six feet in diameter. Some, if not the whole of them, should also be edged 

 round with iron or wire basket-work, as, otherwise, when the plants are 

 trained down to the earth, they are liable to encroach upon the lawn, and to 



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