English Gardens 



GRASS TERRACES AND GARDEN-HOUSE 



heads : roses, perennials, annuals. This is of course a very primi- 

 tive division, but those three classes are represented in e\-ery 

 English garden ; and the three, as befits their different charac- 

 teristics, are generally separated, so that one has the rose-gar- 

 den, the perennial beds or borders, and the parterre of annuals. 

 Roses are the special pride of the English gardener, and with 

 climbers, standards, and low-budded roses, and all the \'arieties 

 of briars, almost anything can be done with the rose-garden. 

 Like other parts of the place it is enclosed with walls or a hedge. 

 The perennials, being like the roses permanent occupiers of 

 the ground, are placed in deep rich beds ; and for convenience 

 both of tending and picking, are frec[uently in long, narrow 

 borders against the walls. This gives the tall growing plants 

 the support and protection of the wall, and leaves room for the 

 various smaller varieties in the edge. Such a long border, with 

 perhaps a hedged walk or bowling-green running the length 

 of it, is a familiar and most charming feature. The annuals 



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