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as Beaute d'Europe, Th. S. Nabonnaud, and Noella 

 Nabonnaud, are on these, and to make them take kindly 

 to the chains some rope is twisted round. As we walk 

 on, the 3 feet 6 inches high posts gradually get taller until 

 they reach 6 feet, and then they form a circle. This time 

 wire is strained from one to the other, and cord is twined 



FIG. 124. 



A, Statue; B, Avenue of weeping'roses ; C, Half circle of turf with rounds of 

 roses; D, Six-foot high posts; E t Path; F, Fourteen-foot high trees; 

 G, Twenty-foot high pergola. 



round it to save the plant from sudden changes of 

 temperature. Upon these are Gloire de Dijon roses. 

 Beyond this circular path are taller uprights. They 

 consist of tree-trunks 14 feet high with cross-bars of wood 

 stretching along the centre of each, and wire forming a 

 festoon at the top. 



