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The plan will be particularly serviceable where the hollow 

 has to be made as narrow as possible and the banks have 

 consequently to be kept pretty upright. At any rate, such 

 an arrangement will be infinitely preferable to having mere 

 heaps of stones thrown together without any apparent object 

 beyond the simple creation of the mass. 



6. The Rose Garden. — Roses, which are favorites with 

 everybody, may be fitly collected into a small separate gar- 

 den, which will then be denominated a rosary. Like the 

 rock garden or the private flower garden, the rosary should 

 be detached, away from the general lawn and in some side 

 nook severed from the rest of the garden by a partial screen 

 of shrubs. It can only, of course, find a place in gardens of 

 medium and larger size. From very limited plots it must 

 necessarily be excluded. 



As with the flower garden, the rosary requires to be shel- 

 tered (not shaded) and sunny. And there is the more reason 

 for it to be in a retired part because it is very uninteresting 

 during the winter season. It should be of some regular 

 shape, with the beds tolerably bold and simple in their out- 

 lines. Very narrow parts in beds, or acute corners, would 

 be nearly useless and look extremely meager because few 

 plants could be inserted in them, and these would cover the 

 ground but imperfectly. At the same time, the beds ought 

 n-ot to be much broader than wfll allow the center of them 

 to be reached pretty easily from either side. And they 

 should have divisions of grass or gravel from three to four 

 feet in breadth, as the admirers of roses always want to go 

 among them comfortably. Grass will always look better 

 than gravel, and when it is used, there will not be more 

 than one or two cross walks of gravel and an encircling one 

 necessary. 



Perhaps the best shape for a rosary is a circle, or a square 



