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poles and arches into a pergola, where such is 

 suitable. 



A pergola is essentially a covered way, and like 

 other paths should exist to lead somewhere. It 

 can fitly associate with a rose garden, either to lead 

 to, or from it or across it, and no straining is needed 

 to give it good reasons for its existence. In the 

 drawing on page 183 a view is shown of a rose 

 garden where the pergola is a passage way across 

 the rose garden from lawns on one hand to the 

 alpine garden on the other. The ground has 

 a rapid fall which enables one side of the pergola 

 to be flanked by a retaining wall, and a walk on 

 the high side of this gives a view of the rose garden 

 looking downwards through the cross bars of the 

 pergola. The rose garden itself is a levelled space 

 and has a water lily tank in the centre. It is 

 bounded by a retaining wall with a low parapet 

 on which climbing roses can sprawl. The jutting 

 out portion is in order to afford points of view. 



Grass makes the best setting to rose beds, and 

 the objection that grass paths are not very service- 

 able does not apply in this case as a rose garden is 

 for summer and fine weather. It is well to provide 

 a gravelled or flagged path for access, and one all- 

 round path for convenience of working, wheeling 

 manure, and so forth. 



A sunk rose garden is extremely pretty, as a 

 fine display of colour is spread out for any one 

 looking down on the beds, and the low retaining 



