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The Rose Garden. 



" The arcades in both designs are for exhibiting Climbing Roses, which we need 

 not say will produce a very imposing effect. They should be formed of latticed 

 pilasters twelve inches wide, and about six feet high to the spring of the arches, each 

 pilaster having four uprights one and a quarter inch square, placed two and two, an 

 inch apart, with balls between them at proper distances, and filled up in the middle 

 with lattice-work, showing five-eighths of an inch in front. The openings between the 

 pilasters may be from four to five feet, according to the height. The arch over the 

 walk should be of lattice-work. Some of the round beds may be of basket-work 

 twelve or fifteen inches deep, especially those shown with a varied outline 



Fig. 5 ROSE GAKDBN AT HATFIKLD HOUSE. 



"In order to make the Rosarium as interesting as possible, the beds might be 

 planted with patches of early-flowering bulbs to precede the general bloom of Roses 

 which bulbs, after flowering, might be lifted, and their places supplied by differenl 

 kinds of Annuals, to succeed the general Rose-bloom. So that there would first be 

 show of early bulbous flowers, then the grand display of Roses, and lastly, the show o: 

 Annuals." 



Some few years ago we furnished a- Rose garden for the Marquis of Salisbury al 

 Hatfield House, Hatfield, Herts (see Fig. 5, for which I am indebted to Mr Norman 

 the present gardener). 



i, 2, 3, are beds of Standard Roses ; 4, beds of Dwarf Roses ; 5, Gloire de Dijor 

 trained on iron chains ; 6, grassy slope ; 7, the old Palace, now the stables ; 8, the 

 natural ground level. 



The site was originally the Palace yard, and it is sheltered on one side (the west; 



