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The Rose Garden. 



ever desirous he may be of cultivating a few choice specimens of Roses. In small 

 gardens it often happens that there is little room, or the proprietor's favourite may be 

 another flower. He may wish not to exclude Roses altogether, although he has not 

 space to cultivate many. 



It is therefore necessary that we should consider how they may be introduced to 

 form an agreeable feature in the Flower Garden. 



Various methods have been suggested, and many carried out with good effect. 

 With regard to Standards, they have been grouped in beds on lawns, planted in con- 

 tinuous lines running parallel with walks ; in square beds or parallelograms, and they 

 are also not unfrequently planted singly on lawns. Dwarfs are planted in single beds, 

 or groups of beds, sometimes a single variety to each bed, to obtain masses of well- 



Fig. 7. ROSE GARDEN AT CHIGNY-LES-ROSES. 



contrasted colours ; sometimes the varieties are mixed and the colours blended. Each 

 of these plans is good under particular circumstances, for we have not always the 

 exact plot of ground at our disposal necessary to carry out certain forms, and besides 

 which our tastes vary. 



Perhaps the best mode of introducing Roses to the Flower Garden is by a group 

 of beds thrown together on a lawn. In these, if the proprietor be a Rose amateur, he 

 would most likely be desirous of obtaining as great a variety as possible, and a bed 

 should be set apart for each group, or for a certain number of his favourite groups. 

 There was a very elegant arrangement of clumps on the lawn at Southgate House, 

 near London. The ground they occupied was a strip taken in from the park, about 

 1 30 yards long and eight yards wide ; it was open to the east. There were fifteen 

 clumps formed in a single row, some two and some four yards apart, excepting the 

 sixth and seventh clumps, between which there was a clear space of sixteen yards. 



