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Gardening for Amateurs 



pleasure. A central walk gives access to the 

 garden ; its margin is broken by a chain of 

 small circles representing positions for the 

 vertical supports of a pergola, and a distinc- 

 tive number corresponding to the key list of 

 Roses is attached to each of them. The 

 central walk looks best if laid in gravel, the 

 remaining ones may either be laid out in 

 grass or flagstones. The latter are delightful 

 and serviceable, but expensive. With the 



Design for formal Rose garden. 



exception of the outer retaining border, the 

 other beds are devoted to Dwarf Roses, these 

 are marked to a colour scheme only, and may 

 embrace Hybrid Perpetuals, Hybrid Teas, 

 and Teas. The outer margin of the retaining 

 border may be planted in the form of a 

 hedge of Roses such as Grass an Teplitz, 

 Cramoisie Superieure, Bardou Job, etc., 

 thinly trained on a 6 or 8 foot trellis. In- 

 stead of the border being continuous, it is 

 broken in the centre, once by the entrance 



and on the other three occasions a seat is 

 introduced with flagstones in front. If a 

 light structure of rustic work is erected over- 

 head, pleasing arbours may be formed, over 

 which climbing Roses can be grown. In front 

 of the retaining hedge groups of Dwarf Poly- 

 antha, Monthly and other low Roses may be 

 planted, and if an occasional plant, or group 

 of Scotch, Austrian, Sweet Brier, Provence, 

 or other old garden Rose be included, fresh 

 interest will be added 

 to the garden. As 

 an alternative ar- 

 rangement, the outer 

 borders may be 

 planted with varie- 

 ties of the hand- 

 some Japanese 

 Brier (Rosa rugosa), 

 which possesses not 

 only showy flowers 

 but brightly-coloured 

 hips also. 



A Simple Formal 

 Garden. As a 

 scheme of this ex- 

 tent may appear too 

 ambitious for many 

 amateurs a some- 

 what similar idea is 

 presented on page 

 507 that would cover 

 only about half the 

 area. The character 

 of the planting might 

 follow the idea sug- 

 gested in the Rose 

 plan, or might be 

 arranged and made 

 very effective, as 

 here suggested, with 

 only garden flowers. 



Such a scheme as this forms an attractive 

 sunk garden, the outline marked by a dry 

 wall of brick or stone, in which Alpine 

 or other flowers are grown. Instead of 

 the central bed being planted, a better 

 effect would follow the use of an old 

 millstone, bedded in the form of a raised 

 step and having a stone sundial on pedestal 

 in the centre. Both steps and hard path- 

 way may be planted with dwarf creeping 

 plants. 



