Groups of Beds. 



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of E. Miller Mundy, Esq. It is 83 yards long. The piers are 8 feet apart (measured 

 across the 6 feet 6 inch flagged path), and vary in width (measured lengthways with 

 the path) from 1 1 feet 2 inches to 5 feet, these varying measurements being made to 

 suit the buildings and cross paths. The piers are bright red thin brick, the woodwork 

 English Oak (see fig. 9). 



The Roses and other plants used for the clothing of this handsome structure were 

 selected and planted by Mr Tallack, and it does not require any great effort of the 

 imagination to anticipate the splendour of the ultimate issue. A less elaborate and 

 less costly structure may be contrived to suit the views of individual proprietors. 

 Simple rustic adornments of this kind may be erected with a few larch or oak poles 

 with cross pieces at the top. 



Standard Roses, planted in lines running parallel with garden-walks, are shown to 



Fig. 9. PERGOLA AT SHIPLEY HALL, DERBYSHIRE. 



great advantage, and this method is in many cases desirable; the borders beneath 

 being planted sparingly with bulbs, herbaceous plants, annuals, or others of humble 

 growth. 



There is one practice which has been too frequently adopted in planting Roses 

 singly on lawns that of placing the turf close up to and around the stems immediately 

 after planting; this cannot be too highly deprecated. The starved and unhealthy 

 appearance the plants usually present shows unmistakably their dislike of such 

 treatment. Why, then, should they be subjected to it? Were they allowed to 

 become thoroughly established, the turf might then be laid on without producing such 

 injurious consequences. But it is desirable to avoid even this ; for of what avail can 

 the soft genial showers of spring, or even the heavier rains of summer, be to the roots 

 of a tree, when they have first to pass through the thirsty turf and give sustenance 

 to the blades composing it? And again, the turfing of the ground prevents in 



