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anything to approach the unique beauty of this scene at Dowdes- 

 well Court, near Andoversford, Gloucestershire. A paneled pic- 

 ture it is, framed by tall tree-trunks, and showing a delicious 

 vista of circular rose-garden and rising park-land beyond, with 

 a superbly rounding tree — possibly an oak — just over the 

 garden's clipped hedge of yew, to carry out the curves of the 

 little garden itself. No situation for a garden could, I believe, 

 bring with it more of interest than this; from its very placing 

 this garden has a cherished look, a look as of something dear 

 and precious; it was a happy thought of owner or designer to 

 use for such a purpose the level spot in the depression between 

 two gently rising slopes. The garden lies some thirty feet below 

 the point from which we see it; a rock garden holds the inter- 

 vening slope, and in the rose-garden these are the subjects 

 grown: Caroline Testout, J. B. Clark, Mme. Abel Chatenay, 

 Liberty, Pharisaer, and Frau Karl Druschki. The three circles 

 or rings of beds may be plainly seen; those of the outer circle 

 are connected by four balancing arches, whereon are Dorothy 

 Perkins and American Pillar — the rambler Professor Sargent so 

 admires. In the centre is a lily pool with its foimtain. For my- 

 self, I can think of no greater pleasure in life than first to have 

 had some part in the conception, the creating of such a garden, 

 and then to be able to lead one's friends or guests, on a day in 

 an English June, to such a spot as Mr. Malby has chosen here 

 for his picture. 



Of the gathering and arranging of roses there is too much to 

 be said for the space allowed me here; but this I think is univer- 

 sally held wise — that roses should be arranged only with their 

 own beautiful buds, "the rosebud ripening to the rose," and 

 their own foliage; and that, because of their rounding shape, 

 low bowls are their best receptacles — bowls, or baskets with 

 linings for water. No rose that I have seen, however, but is en- 



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