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would have a good stretch of white Jasmine, sweetest 

 of late summer flowers. 



Following this there should be a good length of 

 Guelder Rose, delightful as wall clothing in addition 

 to its usual business as a flowering bush in the open, 

 and at its foot and flowering at the same season 

 will be great clumps of the old crimson Peony. 

 As for Roses, their uses are endless, but for such 

 a wall as this the best will be the free-growing Ayr- 

 shires. If any hybrid perpetuals are to have a 

 place they had better be some of the older ones, 

 not now admitted at shows, but such as are often 

 found in old gardens growing on their own roots, 

 and sometimes of great age. They are of the highest 

 value in the garden as the picture well shows. Such 

 a Rose, though not the one shown, whose name is 

 lost, is Anna Alexeieff ; this would be trained free at 

 full length upon the wall it is not a climber but 

 a free grower and a group of the same at the 

 foot would be pruned into loose bush form and 

 grouped with the ever-charming Madame Plantier. 

 This combination of pink and white good garden 

 Roses is delightful. One or two Rosemary bushes 

 would be among these, and then a thicker group of 

 Rosemary, some of it trained to the wall. And so 

 on for a good way, with Rosemary and any of the 

 garden Roses that we may love best, and on the wall 

 old favourites like Blairii No. 2, Climbing Captain 

 Christy, and Climbing Aimee Vibert. 



Two hundred yards of wall would soon be covered 

 with even this limited choice of kinds, and then it 



