are hung one above the other. The Rose grows up inside the frame- 

 work and hangs out all over. If this kind of training is to be on a larger 

 scale, long half-hoops have their ends fixed in the ground, and pass across 

 and across one another at a central point, where they are fixed to a strong 

 post, thus forming ten or twelve ribs. Horizontal wires, like lines of 

 latitude upon a globe, pass all round them at even intervals. Then 

 Roses can be trained to any kind of trellis, either a plain one to make a 

 wall of roses or a shaped one, whose form they will be guided to 

 follow. Then again, there may be rose arches, single, double or grouped ; 

 or in a straight succession over a path ; or alternate arches and garlands, 

 a pretty plan where paths intersect ; the four arches kept a little way 

 back from the point of intersection, with garlands connecting them 

 diagonally in plan. Then there are Roses, some of the same that serve for 

 several of these kinds of free treatment, for making bowers and arbours. 



And there are endless possibilities for the beautiful treatment ot Rose 

 gardens, though seldom does one see them well done. There are many 

 who think that a Rose garden must admit no other flowers but Roses. 

 This may be desirable in some cases, but the present writer holds a more 

 elastic view. Beds and clumps of Roses where no other flower is allowed, 

 often look very bare at the edges, and might with advantage be under- 

 planted with Pinks and Carnations, Pansies, London Pride, or even annuals. 

 And any LiHes of white and pink colouring such as candidum, longijiorum, 

 Brownii, Krameri, or rubellum suit them well, also many kinds of Clematis. 

 The gardener may perhaps, object that the usual cultivation of Roses, 

 the winter mulch and subsequent digging in and the frequent after-hoeing 

 precludes the use of other plants ; but all these rules may be relaxed if 

 the Rose garden is on a fairly good rose soil. For the object is the 

 showing of a space of garden ground made beautiful by garden Roses — 

 not merely the production of a limited number of blooms of exhibition 

 quality. 



The way the bushes of garden Roses grow and bloom in close com- 

 panionship with other strong-growing plants, at Kellie and in thousands 

 of other gardens, shows how amicably they live with their near neigh- 

 bours ; and often by a happy accident, they tell us what plants will group 

 beautifully with them. 



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