Jacqueminot, are allowed to grow into large bushes, and the Roses 
long shoots are pegged down, and so are forced to flower the and 
whole length, instead of only at the top. Climbing Roses The Setting 
cover a winding pergola, which rises from a herbaceous border of Scotch 
with low creeping plants to break the edge of the path; through 
it one sees a wide slope of turf falling to the deep rocky bed of 
the river with the fine trees of its banks, and beyond is an 
old clipped Holly hedge, left to grow at intervals into trees, 
which are wreathed with Dundee or Ayrshire Ramblers, and a 
pale pink Rose of the same exquisite shade as Céleste. 
The effect of the Heucheras in this garden, growing in 
large patches with white Stonecrop beneath them, struck me 
very much; they were a good example of the advantage gained 
by massing plants of one kind together instead of scattering 
them, and indeed this lesson was strongly taught by all the 
borders—from Heucheras to tall Mulleins, everything was 
planted apparently by the dozen. 
But the impression made by the setting of the gardens is 
greater even than that of their luxuriance, and it is seldom, if 
ever, that in England this can be equalled. It is true that one 
misses often our bright effect of flowerbeds near the house and 
the creepers round the windows, but the absence of both is more 
due, I believe, to habit than necessity. For years it has been 
believed that nothing will grow without a stone wall for 
shelter, and so within the walls, and nowhere else as a rule, are 
the flowers grown. Another reason for this practice is, 1 am 
told, the curse of rabbits, but I have not been able to discover 
if a Scotch bunny is really more agile than our English friend, 
and will jump a wire netting of a height to be easily hidden 
by a Rose hedge. Frequently I longed for the flowers to be 
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