Jacqueminot, are allowed to grow into large bushes, and the Roses 



long shoots are pegged down, and so are forced to flower the and 



whole length, instead of only at the top. Climbing Roses The Setting" 



cover a winding pergola, which rises from a herbaceous border o f Scotch 



with low creeping plants to break the edge of the path ; through Q arc i ens 



it one sees a wide slope of turf falling to the deep rocky bed of 



the river with the fine trees of its banks, and beyond is an 



old clipped Holly hedge, left to grow at intervals into trees, 



which are wreathed with Dundee or Ayrshire Ramblers, and a 



pale pink Rose of the same exquisite shade as Celeste. 



The effect of the Heucheras in this garden, growing in 

 large patches with white Stonecrop beneath them, struck me 

 very much ; they were a good example of the advantage gained 

 by massing plants of one kind together instead of scattering 

 them, and indeed this lesson was strongly taught by all the 

 borders from Heucheras to tall Mulleins, everything was 

 planted apparently by the dozen. 



But the impression made by the setting of the gardens is 

 greater even than that of their luxuriance, and it is seldom, if 

 ever, that in England this can be equalled. It is true that one 

 misses often our bright effect of flowerbeds near the house and 

 the creepers round the windows, but the absence of both is more 

 due, I believe, to habit than necessity. For years it has been 

 believed that nothing will grow without a stone wall for 

 shelter, and so within the walls, and nowhere else as a rule, are 

 the flowers grown. Another reason for this practice is, I am 

 told, the curse of rabbits, but I have not been able to discover 

 if a Scotch bunny is really more agile than our English friend, 

 and will jump a wire netting of a height to be easily hidden 

 by a Rose hedge. Frequently I longed for the flowers to be 



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