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are to be cleared for the reservoir, and you can prob- 

 ably get them for a song. 



The border enclosing the grass plots is four feet in 

 width, which allows you to reach into the centre from 

 either side. Two rows of hybrid perpetuals or three of 

 hybrid tea or summer roses can be planted in these 

 beds, according to their size, thus allowing, at the mini- 

 mum, for one hundred hybrid perpetuals, fifty hybrid 

 teas, fifty summer roses, and eighteen climbers, nine 

 on either side of the pergola, with four additional for 

 the corner pillars. 



The irregular beds in the small lawns should not be 

 planted in set rows, but after the manner of shrub- 

 beries. Rugosa roses, if their colours be well chosen, 

 are best for the centre of these beds. They are striking 

 when in flower and decorative in fruit, while the hand- 

 some leaves, that are very free from insects, I find most 

 useful as green in arranging other roses the foliage 

 of which is scanty. The pink-and-white damask 

 roses belong here, and the dear, profuse, and graceful 

 Madame Plan tier, a dozen bushes of this hybrid China 

 rose of seven leaflets are not too many. For seventy 

 years it has held undisputed sway among hardy white 

 roses and has become so much a part of old gardens 

 that we are inclined to place its origin too far back in 



