GARDENS NEAR THE SEA 



not growing so large, are apt to be overshadowed by 

 the more hardy bushes. 



Roses, in truth, are admirably adapted to the plan 

 of a number of formally designed beds which yet hold 

 together and form a complete design. It can be either 

 large or small. In places where space is limited, the 

 prettiest effects are secured by keeping to an exceed- 

 ingly simple scheme. 



So much depends, when a rose garden is planned, 

 upon the position of the land, the number of available 

 feet and inches, the exposure, and the surrounding 

 landscape, that to give general directions for the work 

 would be futile. Once such a garden is scientifically 

 laid out, however, there often seems to be an occult 

 sense which fosters its completion, producing effects 

 little dreamed of in the beginning, and opening unex- 

 pected vistas for the future. 



Almost invariably a certain amount of fashion 

 enters into the formal rose garden, for it is encouraged 

 by architects and is highly pleasing to skilled gardeners. 

 Yet sometimes I have thought that the power of many 

 old-time rose gardens lurked in their absolute freedom 

 from fashion, almost from the dictates of law and order. 

 The mistress of the garden planted a bush here, another 

 there, guided by this very occult sense which surely 

 lies hidden in the vicinity of rose gardens. She hardly 

 realized then the wondrous effects that years of growth 

 would bring to her planting ground. 



With the years, roses have also multiplied and multi- 

 plied again. It is not enough to-day to know that a 

 rose is a rose possibly of simple English ancestry, and 



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