CHAPTER IX 



ROSE ARCHES AND ARBOURS 



Many are the ways in which an arch of Roses may 

 be beautiful in the garden, whether it be a garden 

 of some distinctly set design or one that is quite 

 informal. 



Where two ways meet or cross at a right angle 

 there is always an opportunity for the placing of 

 an arch of Roses, or where flower garden passes into 

 kitchen garden, whether it be walled or not. A Rose 

 arch is none the less a Rose arch because there is 

 a brick arch behind it, although what is generally 

 understood as a Rose arch is one that stands free or 

 is in connection with a bounding hedge, the Rose itself 

 forming the arch, only supported by a framework 

 of wood or iron. 



But often in a modest garden there are other uses 

 for a Rose arch, such as the garden will itself suggest. 

 For instance, where a double flower border is made 

 in a kitchen garden, and it is desirable to take up as 

 little space as may be, a whole Rose scheme may be 

 conveniently combined with borders of useful flowers 

 for cutting or for contemplation. A four-foot grass 

 or gravel path would have on each side borders of 

 five feet wide. At intervals of twenty-five feet, Rose 

 arches, the foot of the arches planted in the back 



