ROSE GARDEN 
(SEE PLAN NO. 5) 
RECTANGULAR plot of ground about 75 by 100 feet will give 
A space enough for quite a large rose garden. We will imagine it 
centred upon a walk to a distant orchard, the long axis extending 
in an east-west direction. An arbor covered with Climbing Roses and 
Clematis affords shade for our garden-loving friends. Several posts in 
pairs set along the walk connect the arbor with the house. Climbing 
Roses are also trained upon them. Seats are provided in the arbor, and 
also two large curved garden benches at the west end under the large 
Flowering Dogwoods (Cornus florida). 
The five-foot walk is divided and becomes two three-foot walks with 
a ten-foot strip between them for the best Everblooming Roses. A 
fifteen-foot grass area lies on either side, and beyond this lawn a ten-foot 
bed for Hybrid Roses. We have room for two rows of Hybrid Perpetuals 
and one of Hybrid Teas, allowing about three feet apart each way. They 
are often planted more closely than this, but we wish to have large speci- 
men shrubs. 
The planting outside the rectangle is mostly of single-flowered Roses, 
or shrubs with flowers of the rose form. To bound the garden on 
the sides we shall set concrete posts ten feet apart and connect them by 
chains; upon these will be trained the single-flowered forms of the newer 
hybrids of Rosa Wichuraiana, in the lighter shades of color. A few speci- 
men evergreens within the garden give emphasis to the exit toward the 
orchard, and are of particular interest when the Roses are out of bloom. 
We plant the Hybrid Perpetuals and Hybrid Teas in groups of twelve 
each, using only the best sorts, the taller kinds in back, and grouping 
red and white on one side and the pink shades on the other. Other 
eighteen equally good sorts may be chosen, but we have taken some of 
the best known which harmonize well and yet contrast in habit height, 
and color. 
The centre bed contains the best Everbloomers for northern latitudes, 
and will be bright with color from June to frost. The roses in the centre 
of the bed are chosen rather for their height than their continuous bloom, 
while the Baby Ramblers used as edging, though low in stature, will 
always be in bloom. The Coral Bells among them, if they succeed in 
this garden, will greatly help out in the color effect; if they are not 
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