174 Landscape Gardening 



being heated, and the other not. It was proposed to plant 

 out the roses in these houses, and train cHmbers also to the 

 rafters, and use the low external wall for supporting the 

 dwarfer and more deHcate varieties. The beds in the rosary 

 are arranged to receive one family each, and space is allotted 

 for standards and pole roses, the whole being screened from 

 the back road and the park by a plantation, chiefly filled 

 with evergreen shrubs. 



The ground at 23 rises rather abruptly towards the east 

 and becomes an appropriate position for accommodating 

 some of the finer members of the coniferous tribe, wliich, 

 being scattered in groups on this grassy bank, show^ them- 

 selves to advantage, and associate well with the winter gar- 

 den. They are backed, as is the whole of the pleasure ground 

 to the east and south, by an old wood of oaks, larches, and 

 spruces. The small circles at 25 enclose two specimens of 

 the Cedrus deodora, and there are masses of evergreens and 

 a very picturesque old oak in the larger circle. 



