fectly hardy, needing no winter protection; their 

 single blossoms are rarely beautiful and their red 

 pips look very gay in winter. 



For the design of the rose garden it always seems 

 safe to begin with a centre circle, then one can hardly 

 go wrong; paths leading from the circle at right and 

 left angles suggest themselves readily, cutting the re- 

 maining spaces into attractive slices of earth pie, 

 both narrow and fat. 



At the top of my rose garden, facing east, I 

 placed the red bed on the right, the white one on the 

 left; at the bottom of the garden, the yellow bed on 

 the right, the pink on the left. The centre circular 

 bed is not planted with roses at all, but filled with 

 tulips, hyacinths, narcissi, and crocuses to divert the 

 eye in spring while the roses are getting their June 

 trousseaus ready. Later on this bed is filled with an 

 all-summer bloom by gay little Phlox Drummondi, 

 bordered by the blue dwarf ageratum. 



The rose garden extension belonging to the garden 

 partner has now grown to greater dimensions than " 

 my original rose kingdom — a proof of the wiles of 

 woman. 



This annex consists of two long outer beds the 

 length of the entire rose domain, with two shorter 



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